Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said Wednesday that there were shortages of gasoline in parts of metro Atlanta, and he called some of the panic “self-induced.”
“There is ample fuel in the city,” he said. “It’s not everywhere it needs to be, but we do not have a crisis in the sense that we don’t have fuel coming in.”
Ok, then. Thanks, Sonny. You neglected to ask for a waiver for Atlanta's low sulfur fuel until there was already a clear problem with shortages and price surges after hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Then you are going to downplay the stress Atlanta residents are going through by blowing it off like this?
I was a good citizen - I did not top off my tank. I waited until I really needed gas to try to fill up thinking that I did not want to make the problem worse and the supply issue would work itself out. Well, now I have less than 1/4 of a tank and I have not seen a single gas station with gas in the last 24 hours.
Great. But there is no problem. I guess not when you are the governor and ride around with a driver and a state car.
