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Going Crazy at the Gas Pumps

Above was the scene at our local Walmart Gas Station a little past 10pm. The line was practically wrapped around the block trying to fill up their tanks just as Hurricane Ike hit the Texas Coast. Gas has jumped twenty cents in the past two days since Hurricane Ike hit land. I am so glad I filled up my car when it was $3.63 and not after the fact.

When everyone heard that gas was about to jump back up to close to $4 a gallon, they flocked to all of the gas stations in town. I am so glad I did not have to deal with this mess…..

Going Crazy at the Gas Pumps

How are people reacting to the rise of gas prices in your town?


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  • Wendy said:

    We were lucky that the gas price hike never hit us up in New Hampshire. It’s still down to 3.49 in my town:) Not great, but better then what it was all Summer.

    {Comment #1 on 14 September 2008 at 1:33 pm}
  • Holly said:

    I live in the middle of nowhere and since I have never seen any neighbors around here in the past 7 months I’ve lived here I am certain that the houses here are merely filler for a ghost town no one knows is desolate; seriously.

    {Comment #2 on 14 September 2008 at 1:54 pm}
  • Lisa said:

    Our gas prices went from $3.69/gal to $4.49/gal overnight! And we’re in ILLINOIS, nowhere near hurricane weather! It’s ridiculous.

    {Comment #3 on 14 September 2008 at 4:02 pm}
  • Elizabeth (M & Ts Mama) said:

    Gas is 4.30 and the gas station up the street is predicting their next load will go up to 5.15 a gallon…BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF COURSE. (I know the family and they are furious!)

    I had to drive with a car FULL of groceries(nothing better than coming home from vacation to an empty fridge) with the gas light ON 20 miles PASS my home to get only 30 dollars worth of gas. (b/c they are regulating how much you can get.) >:-(

    {Comment #4 on 14 September 2008 at 6:00 pm}
  • mindyb said:

    I wish i could pay 3.63 for a gallon of gas… we haven’t had that low a price since april! But i knew the gas hike was coming since they closed the oil rigs in the carribean due to Ike. the oil hike is to keep people from buying the gas, however it never works that way, people always freak out and buy buy buy, of course we all have to get to work, but they hike the gas so that we will buy less of it, since there is less of it to go around.

    {Comment #5 on 14 September 2008 at 7:01 pm}
  • Drea said:

    One sec it was 3.50 here… the next second 4.05
    Its price gouging. Its a total mess.
    Glad neither of us have to commute to work.. im not sure how we’d make it. Despite driving 5 miles to a photoshoot.. thats about it. Any shoot over 10 miles they pay me gas cost and time.
    My husband walks to work.. his walking distance is a nice 50 feet HAHA.

    So that helps… we will wait as long as possible to buy gas again.

    {Comment #6 on 14 September 2008 at 7:12 pm}
  • Elle Bee said:

    We were getting gouged for a bit, but the prices have dropped significantly… not to anything, you know, affordable, but better than 48 hours ago.

    {Comment #7 on 14 September 2008 at 8:53 pm}
  • Samantha said:

    Luckily for us gas prices haven’t went up too much since Ike. What I don’t get is that people will drive an extra few miles and wait in line with the car running… just to save a few cents on gas. It’s like, you jackass, what’s the point?

    {Comment #8 on 14 September 2008 at 8:55 pm}
  • Skye said:

    That’s pretty intense… Where I live Tuesday’s are normally the cheapest days for petrol – when that happens there are normally huge lines, but I don’t drive so much so I’m pretty insulated from that :)

    {Comment #9 on 14 September 2008 at 9:19 pm}
  • Jessica said:

    Our gas prices went up about 30 cents over the past couple of days. We had a gas station actually drop their prices down to $3.88 while everyone else in town was $4.09- which is nothing unusual for them. They like to be defiant I suppose.

    {Comment #10 on 14 September 2008 at 9:42 pm}
  • The Domestic Diva (author) said:

    I don’t know what is crazier the way people act when gas prices begin to fluctuate or how gas changes in such a short period of time.

    {Comment #11 on 15 September 2008 at 11:21 pm}