With all the talk about gas prices has anyone have problems finding gas? All the stations around my house in Doral are out of Premium. The BP on NW 41 ST and 97 Ave, Chevron on NW 41 ST and 107 Ave, Chevron on NW 25 ST and 87 Ave, Shell on NW 25 ST and 107 Ave and even the Hess on NW 41 ST and 107 Ave. I have about 1/2 tank left in both cars and I refuse to put regular so hopefully they're deliver more Premium gas soon.

Anyone else has experienced shortage problems? Anyone know where Premium gas is available?

 

I need to fill up, so I'll let you know if there's any around Kendall today. The Citgo (has like 24 pumps) had Premium when I was there a couple days ago. It's located on SW 87th Ave and Sunset. I'll let you know after I fill up.

 

i have heard that even if you pump 93 it might not be 93 it could very be regular so be carefull some gas stations are ripping people off thinking they are putting 93 when in reality its not be alert

 

My mom went to put gas and they only let her get 7 gallons.They said they were short.

 

I had a conversation with a G.C. that builds gas stations (I draw the gas stations, he builds them. We're in the same building). The Chevron distributor told us that they ran out of premium, plus and diesel at the ports and won't have another boat come in until Wednesday We don't know if he was talking about every brand or just Chevron (if it's just Chevron it's OK; gas companies buy fuel from each other - so much for brand loyalty), but if you can fill up this weekend with premium, do it.

On a happier note, prices will probably come down eventually. Right now everyone is going nuts buying gas out of (irrational) fear, and the stations are taking advantage of it. The law of supply and demand applies to gasoline as well. Usually it's the oil companies that that hike up the prices, but this time even the stations are jumping in. Gas stations usually make 7 or 8 cents a gallons in profit, but now we have clients bragging about how they're making three or four times as much. One guy is making 50 cents a gallon on diesel.

But it should all end soon. Some of the guys here are talking about it like it's another bubble. Investors will stop buying oil futures at these prices, people will stop driving unnessesarily (and carpooling, trading in their SUV's etc.) and the bubble will deflate. The GC I mentioned predicts prices will go down to $40 a barrel / $2.00 a gallon for regular by the end of the year. I hope he's right.

 

i hope so too

 

Tommy, there's plenty of gas by my house. They had premium in stock and no limits on how much gas you can pump. Around US-1 and between 104th Street to 136th Street.

 

I am actually writing for BCC's newspaper, "The Observer". My first assignment is to write a story about how gass prices will affect students lives, how to conserve gass, and why the gass prices have risen so sharply in the past five days. I would apreciate it if you guys would let me possably use this thread for information concerning the local prices of gass.

_thx

 

Gas prices rose within the last few days for the same reason it's been rising at a ridiculous rate for the past 5 years. Because of the a$$hole sitting in the white house. The moron didn't release the reserves before the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast therefore allowing speculation to rise and creating an increase in barrel prices. Had he done it before the market and businesses opened on Monday, it would not have been so drastic.

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Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

 

Alright Hans, don't hold back now.....