Gas Shortage Thread - OT

HendersonTRKing

#karma

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40596/hummer-erupts-in-flames-just-feet-from-gas-pump-after-stockpiling-fuel-in-the-trunk

SGH

nolaegghead said:

Sugah, pass me one of dem Kool Menthols, fillin' dem tanks was sum work der!

Looks like people might be standing in line for more than gas soon. Kool lines coming to a town near you real soon 👍

https://blog.ucsusa.org/casey-kalman/biden-administration-pushes-for-science-informed-ban-on-menthol-cigarettes

JohnInCarolina

The nearest gas station to us was out a few days ago but now has gas.  So it seems we’ll survive this just fine.

PigBeanUs

HendersonTRKing said:

#karma

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40596/hummer-erupts-in-flames-just-feet-from-gas-pump-after-stockpiling-fuel-in-the-trunk

Is florida even serviced by that pipeline?

People like this deserve to have their cars explode in flames. Sorry. Not sorry. 

Also: From the Tampa Bay Times:

” The pipeline itself does not serve much of Florida, so supply shortages are limited to northern parts of the state, such as Tallahassee. Most of Florida's gas is delivered via cargo ship from Gulf Coast refineries, which have not been interrupted by the pipelinehack.”

this idiot was stockpiling despite no shortage. 

Just a continuously laughable sh!tshow down there. 

nolaegghead

This is why we can't have nice things.

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

The first clue should have been how the diesel nozzle is too big to fit into the gas tank filler tube....

Ozzie_Isaac

TEXASBGE2018

God our country is full of single digit IQ morons.

nealmgb

Gas pump nozzles used to be sized for diesel, but are not anymore.  Putting diesel in non diesel vehicles happens more than you would think.  My buddy runs a towing company and towed a CRV with 480 miles today that filled up with diesel by mistake.

Legume

My roommate in college put gas in my diesel Jetta.  He didn’t get very far, broke down middle of a very busy intersection. Expensive mistake.

CTMike

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Per Reddit, fella filled up Hummer, then filled up the jerry cans, then hopped in and lit a cigarette as he drove away.  Then this happened.

I am a bit dubious.  Looks like the first picture is a shed or garage and one of the "cans" is a generator.  The 2nd picture looks like fire stated up front, back end does not look very damaged.

With that said, the juxtaposition makes for a funny 

Florida man strikes again - you can’t fix stupid:

GrateEggspectations

My father-in-law did this to a rental years ago while we were on a family trip in Tuscany. Put gas into a diesel wagon just as we were spending the day touring wineries. The funniest thing was seeing pretty much the entire population of the tiny village we were staying in come to the centre square to see why the car was being towed away. We still have a video of this momentous event. 

RyanStl

I did end up doing my routine fill up a couple days ago. Price was normal for 2021. Line was longer than normal, but I chalk it up to circumstance. All other gas stations I passed the rest of the way home were fairly empty.  Sorry you Southerns have to deal with this.

poster

Paid $1.40/L yesterday for 87 octane. $140.00 to fill up the truck and SxS for the weekend

alaskanassasin

poster said:

Paid $1.40/L yesterday for 87 octane. $140.00 to fill up the truck and SxS for the weekend

 Wow. Last time I drove through I thought I should have brought my 110gallon truck tank.

alaskanassasin

Besides that there is a mean old lady running a gas station in the Yukon, and my fuel filter plugged about a hour after leaving there.

ColbyLang

Just paid $2.799 per gallon. No shortages in Louisiana 

Dondgc

ColbyLang said:

Just paid $2.799 per gallon. No shortages in Louisiana 

I don’t believe any of our gas comes through the Colonial pipeline.  I think northern Mississippi may be as close as it gets.  

nolaegghead

alaskanassasin said:

poster said:

Paid $1.40/L yesterday for 87 octane. $140.00 to fill up the truck and SxS for the weekend

 Wow. Last time I drove through I thought I should have brought my 110gallon truck tank.

That's *per liter*....

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

alaskanassasin said:

poster said:

Paid $1.40/L yesterday for 87 octane. $140.00 to fill up the truck and SxS for the weekend

 Wow. Last time I drove through I thought I should have brought my 110gallon truck tank.

That's *per liter*....

was once explained to me at a candian gas station that it costs more by the liter and thats why i was paying double for a fillup

PigBeanUs

Schoolhouse Rock!

“The liter”
”A liter?”
”Now please don’t sell it short....
it works out fine if you keep in mind...
it’s little more than a quart”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXutV6Vk6k

Canugghead

Litre not liter 

PigBeanUs

Canugghead said:

Litre not liter 

When in Canada I pronounce it “litre”

Ozzie_Isaac

PigBeanUs said:

Schoolhouse Rock!

“The liter”
”A liter?”
”Now please don’t sell it short....
it works out fine if you keep in mind...
it’s little more than a quart”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXutV6Vk6k

3.7L per gallon.  That is what all the urinals say anyway.  I do not think toilet manufacturers

know how to round.

PigBeanUs

Ozzie_Isaac said:

 I do not think toilet manufacturers

know how to round.

Well, I have never seen a square toilet. 

(Live look at NOLA googling “square toilet”)

nolaegghead

PigBeanUs said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

 I do not think toilet manufacturers

know how to round.

Well, I have never seen a square toilet. 

(Live look at NOLA googling “square toilet”)

NOLA looking around to see where some assh0le put a hidden camera in my office to catch me on the googlz....

poster

nolaegghead

nolaegghead