All seemed normal this morning in S Florida, prices about the same and no busier that usual.
High prices, but no panic here in east Tennessee. But folks around here are pretty laid back.
Here in Milwaukee, there is talk of some stations running out of gas and the average price seems to be about $3.40/gal. I didn’t notice any longer lines than usual. The local news interviewed a station owner and she said she had to close down because she couldn’t get her normal delivery and they couldn’t tell her when it would come. Poor planning on her part, or things to come?
On the way in to work yesterday, noticed one station had raised prices overnight from $2.99 regular to $3.35 while the station across the street stood pat at $2.99. No noticeable lines or shortages at either station.
Regrettably, because I was running late as per usual, I was unable to take advantage of the pricing differential.
Fortunately, station 2 had not completely taken the bait by the time I returned from work and had raised to $3.15 per gallon while station 1 stood at $3.35. No lines and no closed pumps from what I could see.
Wonder know how their pricing will look on the way in today.
Is it wrong for a hardware store to raise the price of snow shovels after a blizzard?
I don’t know if there are web sites like this for other cities. This lets people send in gas prices they see around town. It looks like prices are steady in San Diego.
The highest I’ve seen here, as of this morning, was $2.79 for regular. That’s up forty cents in two days, but I was expecting much worse, seeing as this is Louisiana. I filled up yesterday anyway, and that should last me a good week and a half or couple weeks if necessary.
My wife filled up yesterday morning (Wed.) at a local supermarket. With her loyalty card, she got $.10 a gallon off, $2.59. On the way home from work she saw that the biggest dealer in town showed $3.16.
Here there were reports of stations going up to 1.24$/liter from the 97¢ it’s been at for the past month or so, but today the station outside my Nisku office says 1.09.
(Well actually it looks like they took the numbers down completely a while ago, but still). edmontongasprices.com seems a bit behind, but nothing really outrageous yet.
I’ll admit I went out of my way to get gas yesterday, but there weren’t big lineups or anything. Closer to long-weekend-type activity (which it just about is anyway).
Around here, the cheap stuff’s going for $2.65, about what it was a week ago.
The bend-you-over price right now is $3.49 at a station near SFO.
These prices are from www.gasbuddy.com - they may be a couple days out of date. Oh, and no long lines around here, other than at the Costco stations as they’re usually 5-10 cents less than the rest of the area.
Things seem normal in Austin. Haven’t had to resort to the Thunderdome (yet).
High octane is anywhere between $3.20 and $3.30 here, but I haven’t seen any panic-driven behavior. We’re paying more but other than that it’s all normal. We have refineries here in the L.A. area, so that may be one reason.
Here in east Orlando gas is pretty hard to find. I needed gas this morning and I went to or passed 6 different stations before I found a station that had gas. I filled up for 2.82, which is 30 cents more than this time last week. I drive about 75 miles a day for work and out of the 20 or so stations I remember seeing, only a couple had gas. All the local governments are suspending any unecessary govt. travel and asking us to do the same. Which is, of course, causing people to fill up all their vehicles and containers. 
FYI,m the gas lines were during the Nixon Administration. Gas was expensive under Carter, but there was never a shortage.
There were also gas lines during the Carter Administration. Some areas had lines at gas stations in 1979. California briefly adopted an even-odd system of buying gas. You could only buy gas on certain days of the week.
I’m stocking up TONIGHT.
Lancaster, PA: $3.19 for low-test, $3.53 for high.
I was upset. Usually when I get screwed, I at least get a reach-around. Or dinner.
Nothing to add except that there is no REAL shortage. The refineries are cooking fine with their stocks and crude from the reeserve in 24 hours. Distribution might be a bitch and might take a day or two in some spots. BUT THERE IS NO SHORTAGE! Anywhere. People buying up gas for thier tanks like they bought up beinie babies is the problem, as so many others have said. Believe me or not, I am a petroleum economist, and as shitty as it may seem, we have been building these types of models since Sunday night. I wish there was more that I could do.
Before the supply of paper is wiped out?
Stations with gas are in the minority down here in Fort Myers. Prices are all over the board. I saw a shell station at $2.91 and a circle K selling at $2.54 a block away. I’ve got half a tank and hope that we get restocked. People just went nuts down here, I tell you. Because although there may be plenty of gas nationwide, the stations in MY home town are running out.
As of yesterday, here in west central Indiana, gas was $3.19. There are no lines at any of the stations, nor is there any sort of mad rush to fill up. People around here are taking the price hike rather well!
The Pipelines are up and running. NO is only about 10% of the refineries.
The NO Refineries are largely in pretty good shape.
Oil reserves have been tapped. There shouldn’t be any long term shortage and only isolated shortages.
The Prices will stay high and heating oil & Natural gas are going to make for an expensive winter.
NO is the largest Natural Gas processing location in US. The disruption will hopefully be over before heating season.