Whoever you are, I hope we have the pleasure of meeting someday.
But until then, get the flying f— out of there.
(In case nobody has heard the news, authorities are telling people who for whatever reason choose to stay behind to write their names and Social Security numbers on their arms with Sharpies, so that the bodies/parts can be identified later.)...
In an update to the earlier story, a friend has told me that gas is now just over $7 not far over the line in South Carolina. Which makes it all the more interesting considering that South Carolina’s gas tax is lower than North Carolina’s and a lot of people along the border fill their cars up there if they can.
I’ll be adding on more prices as they come in.
I don’t believe at this point that this has anything to do with Ike, and everything to do with over-zealous speculation.
EDIT 6:13 p.m. EST: Fox 8 WGHP is reporting that most gas stations in Greensboro are now out of fuel. Average price seems to be about $3.90 in the area. The local Wal-Mart Supercenter just down the road from us in Rockingham County is tapped dry of juice.
A source has passed along word that the Colonial ...
A trusted source in the Raleigh/Durham area here in North Carolina called to let me know that the price of regular gasoline there is now $4.89, with premium at more than five bucks and a lot of stations limiting purchases to ten gallons. It’s also been reported that at many stations the cars are lined up to the streets.
Also, I’m now hearing that this now how gas is going for this afternoon in Greensboro (about a half-hour south of where we are) and that some stations have already run out of the precious juice.
(If you’re one of this blog’s many foreign readers, this is more or less related to Hurricane Ike in the Gulf of Mexico, although how much of this is serious distribution shortage and how much of this comes from speculators going nutzoid on the oil markets, is anyone’s guess.)
I hope this doesn’t turn into ...
Barring some meteorological miracle, Hurricane Ike is set to be one for the ages.
We’ve got a lot of friends and even some family down that way. Hope all of you in the path of the storm will be safe.
(By the way Jonathan, looks like you’re going to get to experience a hurricane before your sister does 🙂...