I hate waiting in gas lines too.

So many Messed Up Gas emails…

 

Here is just a sample…

 

Feel free to rant.

 

I know I did this morning as I waited in line wondering how the woman in front of me manages to put her pants on by herself, no less pump 10 gallons of petrol.

 

and while i’m angry, does anyone wonder why all the politicians are blowing hot air out of both sides of their pie holes?

 

i mean, what is up with the distribution?

 

 

I understand the pipe line this and the hurricane that and supply and demand, but come on.

 

 

Why do other cities have gas and we have none?

 

I called a relative in California and they said, “What gas shortage”

 

Man, news is local isn’t it?

 

The gas crunch appears to be endemic to this region and this region only.

 

The question is why?

 

Hang in there everyone, this can’t last much longer, can it?

 

a.c.

 

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Good morning Andy,

 

I had a terrible experience on Friday, September 19th, 2008.  I wanted to share this with you in hopes that you might be able to spread the word to others of unethical business practices going on in the City of Columbia, TN. 

 

I had a quarter of a tank of gas on Friday, September 19th, 2008.  My friend knew that Antioch, Brentwood, and Franklin all had no gas.  My friend lives in Spring Hill, TN.  She had filled her car up with gas at the Loves Gas Station on Bear Creek Pike and Highway 65 in Colubmia, TN.  While she was there she saw a gas tanker filling up there pumps, so she knew that they had gas.  My father also filled up at the same Loves Gas Station on Friday, September 19th, 2008.  So, my friend tells me to come down to Columbia, TN and she will fill up my car.  We went out and I took her home.

 I stopped at this Loves Travel Stop around 12:30 to 12:45am on Friday, September 19th, 2008.  I was quite shocked to see bags over all of their pumps.  I went inside and asked them what happened, seeing as how they had just had a delivery that day.  They told me they were out of gas and they had no idea who had gas.  I found this really strange.  I used their bathroom and come out to hear my friend telling this woman with shoulder length blonde hair that she saw a gas tanker here at this station around five pm that same day.  This woman (who is an employee of Loves) actually tells her that “Those gas tankers don’t hold very much.”  I started laughing.  That was the funniest thing I’d ever heard.  Well, it was late and I still needed gas so we were forced to go further into Columbia and luckily I found a Shell gas station with gas.  My friend filled up my tank and I took her home.  On the way home, in Antioch, I almost ran into a line of stopped cars in the right lane of Bell Road right before I-24.  I thought there had been a wreck.  Come to find out, the Shell gas station right there on the right side, was selling gas with their lights out at 1:37am!!!  I could have slammed into the back of those cars if I hadn’t been going the speed limit (as many people on Bell Road often do not do).  I looked across the street at the other Shell gas station with the Dunkin Donuts and they had their lights on and were also selling gas.  They had a line about two miles long.  Could this perhaps be why there is such a gas shortage in the state of Tennessee?  Unethical stations want to sell their gas at a more profitable time and if you don’t have gas in your car, well screw you Joe public.  So anyway, the next morning I get a call from my friend who says she just rode by this Loves Gas Station in Columbia at Bear Creek Pike and Highway 65, that we were just at eight hours earlier.  She said it was around ten am.  She said, mysteriously somehow they now had gas.  I find that really interesting, seeing as how they told me they were out after getting a full tanker delivery around five pm on Friday, September 19th, 2008.  I called the location and spoke with a manager named Bill.  I advised him everything that I am telling you.  He asked me what time my friend drove by on Saturday, September 20th, 2008.  I told him she drove by around 10:00am.  He stammered with his words and said really fast.  “We got a delivery around 9:00am”  That was the biggest lie I have ever heard in my life.  These unethical gas stations are only making this gas crisis worse.

The news keeps saying how this crisis is getting better, but it’s not.

Someone needs to share this with the people of Nashville so they know they underhanded evil people are just trying to take advantage.  I have reported these stations to their corporate and my next email goes to the State Attorney General.  Thanks for listening and I hope you can help me.  Have a nice day.  Thanks for what you do.

 

Rachel Rogers

 

 

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9/20–2:30 PM the Expressway Citgo at 937 Louisville Hwy ph. no. 855-1247 in Goodlettsville had Reg gas posted at $4.69 while the shell accross the road had Reg for $4.09. the shell station had long lines and I believe the Citgo was just waiting till they ran out and catching people in a bind. These stations are at the Hwy 31 exit off interstate 65 North.

 

 

 

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Why is Governor Bredesen not requesting assistance from the Federal Government and/of surrounding states that are not experiencing this crisis?

 I read his brief statement that the “pipeline” was functional now and we will see relief in several days.  In my opinion there is nothing to indicate the Governor and his staff, our Senators and Council did nothing to help the citizens of Tennessee.  If they did so, they were certainly quiet about it - not likely for any politician! 

 

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My next question is - what do they plan to do in the future to prevent this type of issue in the event we face another gas shortage and we are the only state in the United States with this issue???????  From their history, their true loyalties lie with the lobbyists for the oil companies.  The price gauging hot-line is a joke!  How can we be price gouged if there is no fuel to sell us??????????????

 

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I lived through the ’70s gas crisis and we were promised safety nets would be put in place so we would not face the horrible lines full of frustrated, sometimes dangerous drivers having been pushed to their limit.  I suppose that was all forgotten.

 

Does the Governor and his executive staff have to worry about getting gas

in their vehicles ?   I bet NOT!

 

 

 

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My husband is an OTR driver and got a tip from a fuel company driver.Sure enough  in his travels between Nashville and the south GA  coastal area and back to NW AR he saw just what he was told-loaded fuel barges just sitting on the rivers.This is the same thing that happened when i was a child and the full tankers were seen off the coastal beaches just sitting out there loaded.

According to fuel company drivers there is no shortage or crisis.Just a ploy to keep prices up as  the price of crude drops. Funny but some distributors have kept their clients fuel supply up.Have seen them delivering  in both Clarksville and Dickson while other suppliers  refuse to deliver.When  is the state going to get companies like Beach for price gauging(as they are one of the worst calling the stations even when there has been no new delivery and telling them to raise their prices .

Hollingsworth out of Springfield was fueling its customers.So much for the no fuel till next week!

 

 

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On Friday I left one store in Hendersonville with large gas lines and drove across 386 to see a gas tanker pumping gas into the tank of the Daily’s store. Assuming they just had not had time to take the bags off I pulled up, swiped my card and began to fill up. The manager came out and asked me what I was doing. I told her I saw the tanker and thought I would get gas there. She insisted I stop immediately claiming they did not have gas. Keep in mind I just pumped $30 worth with no problem. She put the bag back on the nozzel and when I went by this afternoon they were still claiming they had none. I just don’t get it. I think that’s messed up

 

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Yes sir I live in the area of Trinty lane and Dickerson Pike, Pilot is only charging 3.79 for gallon of gas. The other station right down the road is charging 4.29 per gallon is that wrong or what?? I think the goverment needs to step in and do something about this. This is bullshit when end the end we I you have to pay our hard earned tax dollars for this shit. what can we do to get our prices back to were it was before?? and don’t say supply and demand please. The gas prices in Texas is only 3.20 a gallon so there yeah go thanks Kriss Brown

 

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Andy,

I, like many other people were

searching from pump to pump looking for gas this afternoon.  One station’s pumps had a sign that said, Premium only available, so I stopped and tried a couple of different pumps - but no gas.

In trying to use these pumps, I first swiped my debit card to pay, but I got no gas.  The transaction was cancelled.

The pump was empty.  Fine.

I get home and check my bank line account and notice that this same gas station where I received Nothing - notta, no gas had just debited my account for $100 x 2.  I called my bank and they said there was nothing they could do.  My account was now short $200(pending) until Monday night at midnight.  My money is not available to ME because the gas station now has my debit swipe although I got nothing in return.  Thats messed up.

That’s stealing - holding my funds, especially for these random amounts and I got nothing, not a dime’s worth of gas.  I’m amazed.

 

Linda Dodson

Murfreesboro

 

 

September 22nd, 2008 Posted by Andy | Uncategorized | 7 comments