David,
I feel your pain! I went to four different stations and none had gas. So I went on to church and afterwards started on my hunt once again. Finally on my first look I hit gold. And luckily I got there right as they opened the tanks back up and I didn’t have to wait but for a few minutes. But I have had to wait longer and most of the time people are waiting 45 minutes to an hour trying to get gas.

I hope that they do something about this soon. I hate to think what I’m going to have to go through the next time that I need gas.

Cindy…Ga.

As I said NGa is also experiencing a shortage, so is the Chattanooga
Tn area. People are getting upset, patience is wearing thin, I have
made the decision to drive only to work and back (meaning plans
have been cancelled for leisure) I will stop at stores only on my may
to and from work. Over the next few days I am sure this will have an
effect on retailers big time which just adds to the economic problems
we are currently experiencing.

What I find frustrating is the lack of news regarding the gas shortage you are experiencing, and it’s effect on the travel of those people who are trying to travel south on I95.
I am one of those “snowbirds”, but have a job in Florida and don’t know whether to travel or not to travel.

Hello, we are out of gas in Atlanta Ga….it s a crisis situation that no one seems to be addressing!!!! When there is a gas station that you happen to find a supply of gas…there is a cap of $30.00. With gas being about $4.15 minimum that presents a problem!!!!!!!! It took me about an hour and a half to find gas this past Saturday and then the cops came to try to break up the gas lines. Please look at the situation and address it urgently.

Why? I don’t get it. Is it still due to the Texas refineries shutting down before the hurricane? That’s why, we were told, Canadian gas jumped by 15 cents a litre overnight at that time. Thankfully it is now coming down again and we are sitting at $1.26 a litre in Kelowna BC. I have not seen any line ups for gas here…and we are told to expect possible prices of around $1.15 a litre by November.
Sorry you have to wait so long. That must be really frustrating.I hope your situation changes for the better soon!

I also waited for gas after hours of trying to find a gas station here in South Carolina. I think that pretty soon, more and more people are going to be trading in those SUVs and trucks and luxury cars for hybrids. Even when the gas stations have gas, there’s a 10 gallon and $20-$50 limit for regular! This needs more national attention.

I live in the Raleigh, NC area and we’re having problems too. On Friday night, I went to the airport to pick someone up - thinking I’d gas up while I waited for the plane. The large station at the airport was out. Bone dry until Tuesday the 30th!

When my visitor arrived, we drove past three or four stations - no gas. By then I’m pretty sure I was below empty - on fumes. The fifth station was the charm! The price was still reasonable for our area (3.89) and there was no line!

I guess the economic situation has taken over the news but when we can’t get to work anymore, and businesses shut down, THEN we’ll see it in the news.

OH Diane - my visitor drove back to Florida on I-95 and he said there was gas available (this was yesterday Sunday the 28th).

The cost of crude has fallen again. In the midst of the financial turmoil this is good news. However, as a consumer, I do not see that the resulting coast of gas is dropping proportionally. I would like to see a table that shows the comparison/correlation between the cost of crude per barrel vs. average price of gas per gallon. It would be interesting to see this data for the past few years.

Well this is like watching the Titanic sink. and watching all the rats scurry to safety…women and children to the lifeboats 1st.

Hey Wall Street dude get outta the lifeboat…..hey Republican dude get outta the lifeboat…..GWB get outta the friiggin life boat.

Americans are a bunch of dumb asses…un friggin believable

Do you still want McCain and Palin to run your country (into the ground).

As I write this the DOW is -724 dumbasses!

Hi David,

Sorry to hear about your gasoline woes.

I was talking to a friend from the Atlanta area Saturday and she was telling me about this. Frankly I had no idea.

Hope things improve soon, that has to be a frustrating state of affairs. Might I suggest a good book?

Anderson We as a people must get our asses in gear and build and installed the HHO generators. To start bringing down a little less gasoline use these generators can reduce fuel consumption by 40 to 50%. If the savings was only 25% is would be great for the people and the environment.

Well exposed financial crisis is part of gasoline shortage. Bush failed as a President and should resign now with all his cabinet.

Part of the gasoline shortage in the southeast is caused by pollution laws. Each section of the country has a different blend of gasoline best suited for lowering auto emissions. This means that gasoline blended for Michigan or Arizona can’t be diverted to Georgia to ease it’s shortage. There are also winter and summer blends for each section of the country. It’s likely that the refineries in Pasadena, TX that produce gasoline for the southeast are not back running at 100% yet.

I nursed my son’s 104.3 fever this weekend but I gotta tell you, this situation is horrific! I feel bad for you folks already going through this, I’m wondering when it’s going to hit the rest of the country. Gawd this is going to be so hard on my family coming down to Florida from Tennessee and Alabama in October. What to do, what to do? This is really scary.

Who is this Susan woman who pretends to feel the pain of an
ordinary working person by saying that the market reaction today is
just like a change in seasons, something that is to be expected
on a periodic basis and not something that has any real impact.

My dad worked saved and invested for forty years and now his
retirement savings are worth 10 - 15% less overnight. And he is
fortunate, at least he is retired. What about myself and people
like me that are watching their homes devalue, their investments
decrease, their expenses skyrocket and their job security in doubt.
What planet are you from?

We are having alot of the same problems in Nashville, but it seems things are getting better around here over the weekend. The thing i would like to address are people that “consider themselves” democrats, and how terrible they make their party look by getting into a blame game when there is any kind of problem.

If you are going through out insults and but the blame out there…how about some recommendations to back it up or to at least demonstrate some kind of cognisant reasoning behind them. This Bush administration has had about the most roadblocks in any presidents history, and im not sure if you have any president in history if they would have faired any better.

Just for the record i have never voted in any election, because its all a bunch of BS in my opinion. I will be voting in this election no idea who for and its my vote that will count in an election like this. I dont have any party allegiances and i will vote based on flipping a coin because i dont think it matters one bit who is the talking head.

GREED has caused a majority of our problems not the President. We wanted it all and we wanted it NOW!!!! Well we got it all and now we have to pay the piper.

Mike from Houston….NY, LA and many other cities have a way worse pollution problem than Atlanta and they aren’t out of gas. So having to get a special blend of gas has nothing to do with it. If it did way more cities that have way worse pollution would be in dire need.

Cindy…Ga.

wow Gary from Canada, spoken like a true jerk. Good thing it’s not any if your business, I am already tired of your foul mouth. This isn’t facebook buddy. It is effecting millions of people here. Have fun in “powerhouse” Canada.

Are you kidding? Here is Utah, all was well. My husband and I were up at Cutler’s March paddling in our kayaks, it was beautiful.

What’s with the fuel lines?