I blame Bush

Well we were greeted this afternoon with climbing gas prices ($3 a gallon up 50 cents in two days) and lines at stations to fill up. It appears that most of Athens’s supply of gas is now dry since Katrina has destroyed the Gulf Coast. I’ve heard reports that we will soon have no gas. Maybe this problem wouldn’t be so bad if our administration didn’t insist on

• pissing off Venezuela, our closest foreign resource for oil,
• a war to settle a family vendetta,
• sending National Guard Troops half way around the world,
• drilling in Alaska is the way to solve our commercial oil problems,
• cutting all USACE funding from New Orleans which would help protect from hurricanes,
• etc.

Feel free to list your own reasons for this impending problem.

Update

According to radio reports, the long gas lines were only occuring in Athens because of rumors circulating town that we’d run out of gas or were going to run out by tomorrow. I guess they were started by the local paper warning about the possibility of having no gas available to consumers next week. (Who cares about gas prices if there is no gas to buy?) Of course herd mentality played a part. “Gee, Marge, let’s get in line because those five SUV’s are in line.”

Our governor has told people to stop topping off their tanks and to donate to the Red Cross.