Originally Posted by Squirt
You can go to the pumps twice as often. If you go every time your tank reaches half-full, you'll go twice as often as if you waited until it was almost empty. If one tank lasts me a week, but now I fill up every middle of the week as well so as to be sure I never get below half a tank, I'm filling up twice as often. I'm not saying using twice as much gas. I'm saying going to the pumps and inducing a run upon supply twice as often as I otherwise would.
http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.a...1&nav=0qq6e2bn there's a link talking about gas running out because tons of people rushed to stations to fill up. Had people just filled up as they regularly do, the stations would not have run outta gas.
And this one goes in to it quite nicely:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...home-headlines
That guy filled up four 5-gallon containers, along with filling up his car. And he wasn't alone. The panic, as the article states, creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. There's no pending shortage beyond the one created by the panic-buying.Rumors of station closings, gas shortages and even rationing became a self-fulfilling prophecy in some parts of the ***-county area because oil companies could not keep up with panic purchases.
Steven Lopez, 20, was reacting to a warning from his mother that there might be a gas shortage. So he stocked up on extra gas, filling up four 5-gallon containers at a BP Connect gas station on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard.
"Rumors are creating shortages," said Jim Smith, president of the Florida Petroleum Marketing and Convenience Store Association, which has about 5,600 retail gas outlets out of the state's 9,500 gas stations.
"When demand increases in these panic situations, you can't get enough product delivered. People have gone nuts. I spoke to colleagues in Georgia, North Carolina and other states, and the same thing is happening," he said.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/...0351/1002/NEWS
another one talking about people filling up 55-gallon drums and gas containers, along with their cars. Again, the mad rush and unnecessary hoarding of gas leading to the fulfillment of rumours that were originally unfounded. If everyone freaks out and rushes off to the pumps in one day, of course you end up with a shortage.
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