Gas Hoarders: Natural Selection At Its Best

Clockworkmike

Clockworkmike

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So the Colonial Pipeline that feeds the majority of the lower middle to deeper southeast coastline got hacked by a group for money and disrupted a fair bit of service. Places like NC are down to only 1/3 of the fueling stations having gasoline. This is mainly caused by panicked hoarders who ran out and depleted the fuel tanks yesterday and today. These same people are the kinds who bought all the toilet paper last year and hoarded hand sanitizer as if it were gold bricks in Fort Knox. The worst part is, here in WV we arent even on the Colonial Pipeline, but rather get our fuel from Ashland, KY and via the Ohio River mainly, so there was never a gas shortage until the buyers caused it here too

Now pictures and stories are coming out of morons filling up 5-10 gas cans at a time, as well as using storage totes as fuel containers to hold more gallons( happened in our next door neighbor town at Walmart last night) to even filling plastic trash bags. Yep, the same kind that causes static electricity, which Im no scientist but i think it says even on the pumps to discharge static electricity to prevent accidental fires. And yet these enigmas are tossing bags by the dozens in their trunks like this photo taken yesterday apparently.
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I figure this is this year's Tide Pod Eaters and the disclaimers will start rolling in. It is natural selection: nature's way of clearing it's own mistakes every so often
 
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Seems to me the national and local news outlets drive these “shortages.” Last year with the TP shortage. News kept sensationalizing the empty shelves. The idiots pushing and pulling shopping carts loaded with a 2+ year supply based on normal pooping habits. Even though the manufacturers were trying to tell the nation there is no shortage. We have plenty and are shipping as fast as we can. It’s just hoarders clearing the shelves faster than we can deliver.
 
iblive said:
Seems to me the national and local news outlets drive these “shortages.” Last year with the TP shortage. News kept sensationalizing the empty shelves. The idiots pushing and pulling shopping carts loaded with a 2+ year supply based on normal pooping habits. Even though the manufacturers were trying to tell the nation there is no shortage. We have plenty and are shipping as fast as we can. It’s just hoarders clearing the shelves faster than we can deliver.
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The news media at work. I believe it's a lot like the guy who sets a fire to watch the response to it.
 
Robert Herndon said:
The news media at work. I believe it's a lot like the guy who sets a fire to watch the response to it.
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Feb 2011. NE Illinois was under a blizzard warning. Major event. Life threatening. I will say. They didn’t miss this one. In 12 hours, I ended with about 18” on the driveway where it didn’t drift as much and close to 4ft on the sidewalk where it drifted a lot.

My point. Just like the TP and gas “shortage.” Blizzard was going to start Tuesday PM. Monday news was showing grocery shelves getting cleaned of everything. Panic buying. There were a few things we needed, so I waited till about 10 next morning. Shelves had been restocked. I was able to get everything I needed. And was home hours before the first snowflake. It took a couple days for road crews to get every road and street dug out….. but ONLY two days. No one was going to run out of milk and cereal and two days.
 
eSGEe said:
Here the news media (at least when I cehcked yesterday) where saying "do not panic buy -- thyere is plenty of FUEL -- Central and S. Fl DO NOT FEED from that pipeline ..... in other words!!!!"
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Yeah that's the irony of the fuel shortages here too: we aren't on that line. Ours is largely from The Plantation Pipeline that sources out of Baton Rouge and terminates near DC. My area directly is sourced off of that line from Ashland , KY. The Colonial Pipeline runs parallel but doesnt connect to us. So you have panicked idiots, depleting stations in my lil town of 6000 within hours. Prices jumped from $2.79 to $2.96 and is expected to head around $3.05 now because the trucks cant keep the stations filled from these jackasses. Literally, at times in the day, there are 25-30 cars lined up on stations operating about 4-6 pumps. Usual traffic is no more than 5 at a time normally

Toilet Paper hoarders 2.0
 
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