Have gas prices affected you?

[Hobbs]

Originally Posted by glatt

Here's one cause of the high gas prices and short supply. Can you say "hoarding?"

Here, Joe Stevens fills his 1,500 gallon gas tank after waiting in line for an hour in Mobile, Alabama yesterday.

Many, many, years ago when I was a kid, I seemed to remember one of the many gas crisis that hit this country. People were hoarding gas by filling large containers and putting them in their backyard. Many of them were actually burying them in the ground. Many of these containers that were plastic, since they were fuel rated, would begin to deteriorate and leak, causing a huge hazard. There were also reports of these containers exploding becuse of the building up of gas fumes. Folks do unerstand that you can't just fill anything up with gas and be good. I am surprise the gas station is allowing this dude to fill this rusted out hunk of metal. Not to mention, if gas was...say $2.80 in Mobile, that's 4,200 fricken dollars!