[Sca-cooks] OT - Katrina aftermath

[Sue Clemenger]

It's not the gas retailers (at least, not around here...our prices 
jumped 25 cents overnight, retail, but the gas stations' costs went up 
40 cents during the same time period).  The problem's with the 
refineries, not the actual oil supply, from what I've heard on the news.
--maire, glad she commutes to work on the local transport system...(I 
take da bus ;o)

John Kemker wrote:

> The pipeline story was a rumor.  Prices are are expected to settle down 
> as the rumor loses steam.
> 
> My advice is to avoid in the future any gas retailer that engaged in 
> such flagrant profiteering.
> 
> --Lord Cian O'Madadhain
> 
> Nick Sasso wrote:
> 
>> On a totally different tack . . . is anyone else paying 3.99 a gallon for
>> unleaded gas today?  I watched with abject disbelief as Atlantans paid
>> upwards of 8.99 in some places for premium unleaded!!  Since I walk to 
>> work
>> now, and I have a full tank that will last to next week, I am not 
>> paying a
>> kidney for a tank of gas here in Grantville.
>>
>> Maybe they'll get some military units in with huge generators to get 
>> those
>> pipeline pumps in MS going.  I am sure they have enough fuel to run them!
>> Without fuel, it will be difficult and way more expensive to transport 
>> those
>> emergency relief supplies from the southern and eastern seaboards.
>>
>> niccolo difrancesco