Where's the gas?

Is this the 70s? Station after station I've driven by lately has plastic bags over the handles of their gas pumps, indicating they are out of gas. Apparently we have Ike to thank. This massive pipeline, the Colonial Pipeline, that runs from Texas to the Northeast isn't running at capacity thanks to hurricane Ike.

As a result, gas prices have been on the rise here, topping four dollars a gallon again. I was in Nevada and California last week and was shocked at how "low" their gas prices were... $3.39 in Vegas to $3.50 in Sacramento. I told my brother I never thought I'd be jealous of California gas prices.

I was happy to learn, upon returning from our week long west coast tour, that the pipeline is running full steam, the stations around here seem to have gas again and the prices are starting to fall. I still paid $3.79 the other day, but that's better than the four bucks we were paying before we left... that is if you could even get gas. Pre-trip it took me three gas stations to find gas one day, and it took SpyC five stations. How bizarre.