I thought this would be a good idea since alot of us have to go back to work Monday. I have a full tank in my wife's car, but only half a tank in my work car. I will be heading from Magnolia to Stafford Monday. Anyway ..if you see a station that has gas ..post it here! Please!!! Thanks!!!
Here's a good scoop on where one gas truck will be heading. Maybe some of you should go wait at the pump now? http://blogs.chron.com/roadhome/ Gas truck driver becomes hero In League City this evening, the arrival of Bay Oil Co. gas truck driver James Kelley's 9,000-gallon tanker made him an instant celebrity at the Coyote Chevron station at 3026 FM 2094, where lines were already in excess of an hour. The 52-year-old La Marque resident deposited some 8,500 gallons of gasoline at the station about 5:45 p.m. He is scheduled to make trips to three other Clear Lake-Bay Area gas stations tonight, but prior to each stop he must first drive to Galena Park, where he refills the truck. ''People don't understand that,'' Kelley said. With most gas stations across Houston closed and many in the Clear Lake-Bay Area shuttered with plywood, Kelley said drivers have been treating him differently today. ''People think we're the worst people in the world,'' he said. ''They cut us off. But with no gas, they love me now. They ought to give us a little more respect.'' Kelley said he still has three more trips to make today, one of which will be at the Bay Area Chevron, 2747 Bay Area Blvd., which he expects to make around 7:30 p.m. He said he also he will also be supplying the Shopper's Mart Shell, 2605 Main St. in La Marque, and Texas City Chevron, 9902 Emmett F. Lowry Expressway, with fuel later this evening.
It's like a druggie going through a withdrawal: he or she will do ANYTHING for that 'taste' of the good stuff. Oil is our collective society's drug of choice. We hate the fact that we're 'hooked' on it, but we realize we can't live without it.
This is good. I have a scheduled event to attend in Dallas Sunday morning/afternoon and I am cntemplating hard if I should honor it. It is not a do or die event but it is one that I have been planning for for over 1 months now. Oh well it is wait and see mode now.
The Shell station at I-10 and Fry Road has a long line so I think they are selling gas right now. The Conoco at Barker Cypress and Clay Road has a line of cars refueling too with about 20-30 cars waiting in line.
The Walmart at 290 and Cypress Rosehill has a couple of pumps going. It has a line of about 20 cars at 9 pm.
As of ~10pm Conoco at Cypress N. Houston/Jones & Kroger at Cypresswood/249 had gas. Both had long lines.
On my drive back home I did see long lines at the Walmart gas station on Fairmont Parkway in Pasadena. Thanks to Rita's eastern route I was able to top off with the gas that was stored for our generators.
This is why we need to find alternative fuel supplies....our whole country relies on gasoline...far too much. DD
Gasoline has a tremendous amount of raw energy that is packaged very densely. There aren't a ton of other substances that are easily obtainable that have the same characteristic.
ok... and 10 years from now, we will have 5 more years of oil... I believe he was talking about finding more immediate solutions
Uh, not drilling in a wildlife refuge isn't the reason Houston is low on gas right now. People bought all the gasoline and the oil companies weren't going to deliver any to a city when it's in the possible path of a hurricane. And all of the refineries that supply Houston had to shut down because of said hurricane as well. If we were all using hydrogen powered cars, people would have bought up all the hydrogen fuel and the hydrogen companies woud not deliever to a city in the possible path of a hurricane. And let's just assume the electrolysis plants we rely on would have been in Rita's path and would have had to shut down as well.
Leave that alone. Destroying the balance of the Earth is messing up things already as it is. Are humans so arrogant that they think they can do whatever they want and that there will be no consequences for destroying the natural balance of the Earth? Tsunami, Katrina, Rita. All within a few months of each other. Is it just coincidence?
