My wife's car needed gas, and my truck had enough to make 1.5 trips to work, so I filled the tank too. However, every station I passed on the way to work had gas. On the way home, they didn't. I just happened to pass an AM/PM twice, and the second time (on the way home), a tanker rolled in and pumped out to the station. Most cars passing by saw the signs saying they were out of gas, but not smart enough to put tanker+fuel together. :) I stopped in and asked when the pumps would be on, and they were already active. Filled my tank and brough my wife's car back 10 min later to do the same. This was at 1am. Working in public safety, I don't have the luxury of telecommuting, so I see a need to get gas whenever I have an opportunity just to ensure that I can make it to/from work each day until this BS of a shortage ends.
BTW, did anyone see the news 15 segment where that moron gas station owner justified his $4.00/gal for 87-octane by saying that TV stations can charge whatever they want for commercial segments, and that he should be able to as well. Anyone want to start a pool on when his station is firebombed or he gets the crap beat out of him?
Brian
Team A.I.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gale Draper
To:
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Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 2:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] No gas to geocache!
I just came back from an errand. I passed 12 gas stations. Only one had any gas. The line was 30 cars long at least (I counted 30 and stopped).
I heard an interesting bit from Mark Spitzer (Az Corp Com) about the gas problem. He described how they tested the pipe over the weekend by pushing millions of gallons of water at high pressure through it (ouch-and in a drought too). The corrosion was internal, at a welded seam. The pipeline had just been inspected by the feds in July. Then he went into a political rant about how we need a refinery in Arizona......
Cheryl Brown <teamcbx2@ev1.net> wrote:
I'll second the long lines. We live in chandler and just spent 2.5 hours in a line and then it took 20 min. to pump because it was going so slow.
But have gas to get to work for the week. Will have to find caches within a 3 to 5 mile radius of the house J.
Team CBx2
-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of Gale Draper
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:14 PM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] No gas to geocache!
The news says it will be about 2 weeks before this is resolved and supplies return to normal. I can understand if a pipeline is broken, but it is fixed and waiting for the feds to approve it. The approval process could take 2 weeks.
The governor is having a news/press conference at 3 pm. She's back in the valley. Personally I don't think she realizes how bad it is. Mike called and said the one gas station he saw with gas has 4 Chandler cops directing traffic and keeping order. There were at least 50 cars in a long line down the road. I spent some time calling our politicians to let them know (politely) that I am concerned. Hopefully it will spur the governor/feds to correct this as soon as possible.
Maybe now is a good time to work on the puzzle part of puzzle caches.
BBUDCAM@aol.com wrote:
Budcam & Mary cancelled an Elk scouting trip to unit 10 (Williams to Seligman, I-40 to the canyon) because of the gas SHORTAGE. We also skipped out on caching. This was the first weekend in a long time we didnt even look for one.
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