So the big $700 billion bail out didn’t work out. Washington Mutual disappeared over night. Our bank, Wachovia, is sliding down fast. Gas is increasingly scare here.
What else could go wrong? Cause each passing day is leading us towards that Mad Max scenario…
It’s becoming more and more clear that President Bush has about as much power over the economy as me, despite all his huffing and puffing, he’s quite clearly a step below the lame-duck status… Not even close to a figurehead. Most powerful man in the World? Give me a break.
As for the gas shortage, Hurricane Ike hit 2 weeks ago, and way below the expectations of what class it was going to be, but still 3 weekends later we’re still running dry. I don’t remember it being anywhere close to this bad after the double whammy of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005, sure gas prices sky rocketed as price gouging took hold, but 2 weeks of very limited supply?
In fact, let me refresh your memory of those days…
Metro Atlanta drivers are facing the possibility of paying considerably more than $3 a gallon for gas by Labor Day – if they can get it at all.
The metro Atlanta region generally has about a 10-day supply of gasoline in inventory, said BP spokesman Michael Kumpf. The pipelines have been down for two days.
It came close, but never actually ran out, and that’s when the price of gouged gas was lower than our current lowest today (or at least 2 weeks ago). Madness! Utter, utter madness…