Quote Originally Posted by BDBionic
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.

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.

Dude I know people hoard gas when there's a perceived crisis. I didn't ask you to prove that. I know that.

You said "They never let their tank get less than half full. They head straight to the gas station to fill up. They come back to the pumps twice as often as they otherwise would." I asked you to prove that. It's ok if you mispoke, or were mistaken, it's not a big deal :groovy: