AAA, the nation’s largest motor club, told FOX Television Stations that it responded to more than 200,000 out-of-gas calls from January - April, up from 153,668 at the same time last year. In April alone, AAA received 50,787 calls from stranded drivers. But industry experts caution that high gas prices may not be directly to blame for more people running out of gas.
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industry experts caution that high gas prices may not be directly to blame for more people running out of gas
Oh, horseshit. People are running out of gas because they're living from paycheck to paycheck and trying to make it stretch.
I read a piece else where today that indicates truckers are being sidelined by diesel availability. So expect food shortages to start spiking.
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The East coast problem is that diesel is being exported to prop up the failing Western European Globalist states, while the Western US states problem in that one of the fertilizers not being made in sufficient quantity is urea, otherwise known as 75% of DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid), an "environmentally required" product without which diesel trucks will not run.
DeleteHungry yet? How about lets shut down the export of 25%+ of the worlds' grain supply, (75% of which goes to the Mideast and N Africa), and 40%+ of the worlds' fertilizer.
What could possibly go wrong?
John in Indy
Anonymous "experts"!? The fallback when you want to BS people and not have to back it up with facts.
ReplyDeleteAnymore an expert is just someone who repeats the popular opinion
DeleteIndustry experts like politicians should be hanged!
ReplyDeleteTo be pedantic, high prices are not directly to blame for running out of gas.
ReplyDeletePeople run out of gas because the tank is empty.
High prices is causitive for not adding fuel to the tank.
Siphoning & thieving of fuel.
ReplyDeleteCarter gas crisis saw hose baffles and locking gas caps enter the scene.
Stealing gas will doubtlessly increase with price.
They will be getting the cats while they are there
DeleteThey aren't even siphoning the gas anymore. Now that the tanks are all plastic, thieves are just drilling a hole in the tank to drain it.
DeleteJeremy P.
My Dad bought a locking gas cap when gas hit $1.00/gal.
Delete"Industry experts" = hand-picked propagandists.
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Upon not arriving to intended destination, the findings reveal the engine stopped due to fuel exhaustion. High price will only be listed, if at all, as contributory factor, never as causitive.
ReplyDeleteSure, the 'experts' are playing word games, they are not wrong on a factual basis. But such minute detail is being used to hide the true nature of things.
Ahh,the old Distinction without a Difference, ehh,Chief?
DeleteJust move on if I've told this here before. Last week I was on a local four lane, not limited access but 55mph speed limit (heh, heh, yeah right). I passed a big Tesla, the one that sort of looks like a Jag. It was going slow with the windows and the sunroof open. It was about 90 Georgia degrees. My guess was that he was saving the battery to get somewhere. I smiled as he passed the Racetrak which would have helped me and my classic 14mpg Durango, but was of no used him.
ReplyDeleteRegular down on the corner is $6.29 a gallon. Filled up 30 miles away for $5.29. Both in north suburban Chicago.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame the oil companies for gas prices. They're a commodity. I blame Biden for willful incompetence.
The one saving grace to this is that diesel and home heating oil are the same thing. And a big part of this country is going to have gotten that first tankful of home heating oil and the bill, just before the November Mid-terms.
ReplyDeleteNormally $787, Now $2,450. Depending on the winter, you need three tanks to get through the winter. Who you voting for?
Propane's up 90% too.
DeleteAnd, in modern cars, about a week later the fuel pump fails as they rely on the fuel to lubricate and cool the working parts. replacing it will cost a hell of a lot because of al the other parts that need to be removed to get to it ...
ReplyDeleteKeep the tank topped up regardless of the cost otherwise you are looking at an estimated $500 to $600 repair bill.
Phil B
It ran me 800 bucks a couple years ago to replace my fuel pump in my 2001 F-150. No, I didn't run out of gas, it just wore out.
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