Oh My!

Everybody's FUH-REAKING OUT! Rumors have been going around Atlanta today that there will be no gas by tomorrow. Rush hour was insaine! People lined up at the pumps all the way out into the middle of the road blocking traffic. The gov'na just called a state of emergency on gas prices because gas stations are hiking up the prices, so it freezes the prices where they are. I got my mom's gas this morning for $2.80 a gallon, by two p.m. it was all over but the crying. Some places have kept it reasonable, but the closer you get to downtown ATL, the higher the prices- $3.99-$4.99 a gallon. They even said one place was at 6 a gallon.

I've heard this discussion before today, and now more so today- that it is the Republican's fault, and the Iraq war's fault, and big business' fault that gas is so high. Wake up people! It's the EPA. It's panty waisted tree huggers! It's the state laws regulating what type of gas we can and cannot sell in each state- which in turn, makes it harder on our own refineries to use our own natural resources. I'm getting carried away here on the big picture, back to the immediate. (and might go back to the big picture at a later date) A few pipelines from the Gulf to the S.Eastern states are temporarily out of order. We get our gas from other parts of the Eastern seaboard as well. We're not going to run out of gas. And, the local government has done what it should have, and loosened the restrictions on the type of gas we can sell in Georgia, so therefore we can now get gas from other places we normally wouldn't be able to. Sensationalism at its height.

That being said, I am very broken hearted about the state of our gulf coast. I watched some scenes of a highway overpass, where there were 1000+ people stranded in the 90 degree heat without water, food, or shade even. Little babies, a lethargic 3 year old. It's really really sad, and uncomfortable and life-threatening for these people. My heart goes out to them.