Gas Crisis

Well, if it isn't happening in your area and you haven't yet heard, the South is going through a major gasoline crisis right now. Sure, gas prices have been bad all over the States for a while now, but in addition to that, the South is running out of it! Believe it or not, but even in a city as big and as generally important as Atlanta (especially when compared with other Southern cities), most gas stations have closed their pumps due to not being able to obtain gas, so we're left with maybe one out of every five stations offering gas (and usually only low grade). As you can imagine, people are kinda freaking out, and due to the extremely diminished supply, gas lines are now spilling out onto the streets, messing up traffic in the process.

After a couple days of witnessing this from a distance, today I actually sat in one of those lines, which took me a little over 15 minutes. Ultimately, this isn't that bad, but it's also not that good either, and if things get any worse, we might be in real trouble. Supposedly all of this is due to something like nine oil refineries being out of service after our recent barrage of hurricanes, but why wouldn't we just get our gas from somewhere else instead in the meantime?