Gasoline prices rose to nearly $5.50 a gallon in parts of Florida on Friday when rumors of a fuel shortage spread across the state.
Motorists in Tallahassee were lined up to pay $5.49 per gallon.
A fuel panic swept Gainesville on Thursday, where long gas lines spilled over onto a busy thoroughfare, tempers flared and the police were called, said Randy Bly, a spokesman for AAA Auto Club South.
A fight broke out in a line at a Gainesville station and prices in Southwest Florida began creeping up.
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The run on gas was prompted by Hurricane Ike and the closing of several large refineries along the Texas-Louisiana coast.
But Agriculture and Consumers Services Commissioner Charlie Bronson responded quickly.
“There is no fuel shortage in Florida,” Bronson said. “There’s hundreds of millions of gallons available.”
Bronson promised to act quickly to any price gougers.
He said he would subpoena the records of any gas station suspected of price gouging. Violators face a $10,000 fine per violation, up to $25,000 a day. He said retailers can’t raise prices arbitrarily just because they anticipate higher prices in the future.
But, according to Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services spokesman Terry McElroy it doesn’t necessarily mean retailers are gouging customers when prices rise wildly.
If wholesale prices justify the increases, there’s not much regulators can do, he said.
Marsha Kut, travel Manager for Lee County AAA, predicted a 20- to 30-cent increase at Lee County pumps.
She said the hike should be short term, lasting a few days to a week.
“We have enough oil,” she said.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:01 am
It’s not “we the people” anymore. It’s “we the Illuminati”. Start praying and get right with God.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Its to late to pray Snow… dec 21 2012 im coming down, even now my minions are preparing the last gate hahahaha
September 13th, 2008 at 9:18 am
GOD IS A MYTH…wake up! Just another MYTH…amazing that this simple shepherd tale is still STILL steering world events and being used as an HIERARCHICAL FASCISTIC POLITICAL TOOL….”TOP DOWN” structure…”OBEDIENCE” to higher authority..on and on and on and on..if you added up the gallons of HUMAN BLOOD spilled by ‘CHRISTIANS’ since the inseption of the first “church” you would need to measure it in increments of..’Olympic Swimming Pools’ at the maximum..and GALLONS or LTRES at the MINIMUM…as in “the Crusades: 10,000 Olympic Pools” or even individuals..”BTK: 30 gallons”..and that is another thing..it is sort of ODD…don’t you think..that the VAST..VAST MAJORITY of Serial Killers, Rapists, Murderers…CHILD MOLESTORS…let’s not foget the THOUSANDS OF CATHOLIC PRIESTS..a PEDOPHILE ARMY…are ALL…”CHRISTIANS”…and many of them..from the BTK to John Wayne Gacy.were “Ministers” or the CHILDREN of Ministers…Yeah..those “Christian Values” Hmmmmm…
And then..there is ISLAM..the SECOND most evil Forc on earth…and only second by dirth of years ‘In Service’..add a few centuries and you have..probably..the same level of destruction as that of the ‘christians’…
The Point here is..IF THERE IS AN EVIL FORCE IN THIS REALITY..THEN THAT ‘INTELLIGENCE’ IS….WELL…DIABOLICAL..AND IT AMAZES ME THAT SO MANY BIBLE READERS..AND KORAN READERS..WITH ALL THE MUMBO-JUMBO AND ‘INVISIBLE WORLD’ INFORMATION..CANNOT SEE THAT ANY FORM OR ‘TRUE EVIL’ WILL BE SO INTELLIGNET THAT IT WILL BE QUITE CAPABLE OF DECEIVING THE AVERAGE MONKEY-BOY..OR IN THE CASE OF THE AVERAGE ORGANIZED RELIGION MEMBER…”PIG-MAN”…INTO BELIEVING THAT THEIRS IS THE “RIGHT PATH” AND THAT ALL MANNER OF EVIL AND DESTRUCTIVE DEEDS SHPOULD BE CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME OF THAT ‘RELIGION’…WAKE UP….YOU ARE NOT AS CLEVER AS THE FORCES OF EVIL IN HIGHER PLANES..YOU ARE NOT!..THE BIBLE, THE KORAN, THE JEWS..THE MORMONS..ALL OF YOU ‘BELIEVERS’ ARE DOING EVIL..YO ARE DEVIDING AND SPLITTING THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR UNIVERSAL GOOD WITH PETTY POLITICS AND ‘DOCTRINE’..AS IF ANY OF THAT MATERED IN THA FACE OF ‘TRUE GOOD’ AND ‘TRUE EVIL’..YOU QUOTE A BOOK..AS IF THAT WERE THAT LAST WORD.NOT EVEN TAKING THE TIME TO RECALL THAT ALL OF YOR BOOKS..HAV BEEN EDITED, ALTERED..CHANGED OVER THE CENTURIES AND DECADES..BY ZEALOUS AND SELFISH ‘LEADERS’ OF YOUR VARIOUS AND SUNDRY CULTS…THE BIBLE IN PARTICULAR IS EDITED TO THE POINT OF BEING..QUITE LITTERALY A SHADOW OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT…THIS IS A FACT OF HISTORY…AND YET..YOU USE THIS BOOK..AND OTHERS USE THEIR ‘BOOKS’ TO EXCUSE THE MOST EVIL FORMS OF INJUSTICE AND HUMAN CRUELTY….YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE..AND YET KILL IN THE NAME OF THATT SAME BELIEF…UHHH…HMMMM…WOW!..THAT’S CALLED ‘PSYCHOSIS’ AMIGO…AS IN SEPERATED FROM REALITY…
YOU CANNOT DO GOOD BY DOING EVIL..YOU CANNOT BE RELIEVED OF YOUR EVIL DEEDS WITH THE SIMPLE ACT OF ‘BELIEF’..WHICH IS A JOKE ANYWAY AS 99% OF YOU ‘BELIEVERS’ WOULD NOT WALK ACCROSS THE STREET TO HELP YOUR FELLOW MAN AND ACT ON YOUR BELIEFS..ESPECIALLY IF THEY WER NOT “ONE OF YOU”
ADMIT IT…YOU ARE CULT MEMBERS…AN THE EVIL YOU DO IN THE NAME OF ‘RELIGION’ HAS KEPT MANKIND IN THE DARK AGES OF WAR AND DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AND POLTICAL AND SOCIAL CAPTIVITY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS…WHOLE CULTURES DESTROYED…SWIMMING POOLS OF BLOOD SPILT..AND FOR WHAT? LIFE? YEAH…RIIIIIGHT! I’D BUY THAT FER A DOLLAR…
YOU TRUE BELIEVERS ARE THE REAL EVIL IN THIS WORLD..TRICKED BY THE INTELLIGNET EVIL THAT DOES EXIST…AND THE TRUE GOOD…WATCHES..SADDENED BY ALL OF THIS…YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A HIERARCHICAL BELIEF SYSTEM TO BE “GOOD” AND TO DO “GOOD”…AND…IN FACT…..IT IS ESSENTIALLY A FACT…AN UNDENIABLE FACT…THAT NEURAL “GOOD” WORKS…WITHOUT DEMANDS OR “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS THEN WE’LL HELP YOU WITH WHAT’S LEFT OF THE FAITH BASED PROGRAM MONEY AFTER THE REPUBLICAN SLUSH FUND WITHDRAWL, BECASUE WINNING POWER IS MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN HELPING ANYONE…WELL..DO YOU WANT HELP? THEN OBEY!” YEAH..THAT IS “GOOD”…WOW!
YOU ARE A POLITICAL TOOL…OF CONTROL..AND DEVISIVE EVIL..NOTHING MORE…WAS IT NOT ‘SATAN’ THAT DEMANDED BELIEF IN HIMSELF…A HIERARCHICAL STRUCURE OF COMPLETE FEALTY??? HMM…AND ‘GOD’ CARES ABOUT HOW YOU VOTE? OR WHAT I PUT IN MY BODY? OR WHO I SLEEP WITH? GIMME A BREAK…
AND FINALLY…WHY? WHAT IS IT THAT COMPELS YOU ‘CHRISTIANS’ AND OTHERS..TO DEMAND…TO FORCE..TO COERCE..OR TO TRY..ENDLESSLY.TO COERCE…THE REST OF US TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING???? WHAT IS THAT? I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SE A STUDY OF THIS PHENOMENON…IS IT FEAR? IS IT INDECISION? AS IN…IF YOU ARE FREE TO DO OTHER THINGS WITH YOUR LIFE…THEN THAT IS JUST TOO MANY CHOICES AND YOU GET ANXIOUS AND SO YOU SETTLE FOR JUST TRYING TO MAKE US ALL THE SAME SO YOU PERSONALLY DO NOT HAVE TO FACE THE CHOICES IN LIFE…SINCE ….WITH YOUR ‘BELIEFS’ THERE ARE NONE? IS THAT IT?
OR IS IT JUST STUPID, BLIND..DUMB ANIMAL FEAR? FEAR OF ANYTHING YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND? FEAR OF ANYTHING YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH..AND SO..YOUR ANSWER IS..SAMENESS….
AND YOU CALL YOURSELVES “PATRIOTS” AND “AMERICANS” AND ALL THAT…UHHH…IT’S PRETTY DAMN CLEAR THAT ‘CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW….’ ETC..ETC..ETC…FER CRYIN OUT LOUD..IT’S THE VERY FIRST AMENDMENT…AND YET YOU IGNORE OUR RIGHTS TO NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE…AND YOU DO EVERY THING IN YOUR POWER..TO CONTROL OUR BELIEFS…OUR BODIES..THE BODIES OF OUR FEMALE COUNTERPARTS…TO CONTROL…TO CONTROL…TO CONTROL…FACE IT…THAT IS WHAT ORGANIZED RELIGION IS ALL ABOUT….CONTROL…AND NOW OF COURSE…MONEY…”GOOD” AND “EVIL” ARE NOT THE DRIVING CONCERNS..IF THEY WERE..WELL..EVIL WON A LONG TIME AGO…ORGANIZED RELIGION IS EVIL…PERIOD…
SO..PRETTY BIG RPLY TO ‘GET RIGHT WITH GOD’..YEAH.I KNOW..BUT I HAVE JUST…HAD IT WITH THESE HYPOCRITES…IF THERE REALLY WAS A JESUS..AND HE CAME BACK TODAY AND SAW WHAT WAS BEING DONE IN HIS NAME……..HE WOULD NEVER STOP THROWING UP…EVEN WHILE BEING WATERBOARDED FOR BEING A TERRORIST…BECASUE IF YOU THINK HE WOULD BE ON THE SIDE OF DER JUNIOR AND PALIN ET AL….YOU ARE TRULY A FOOL…NO..HE WOULD GET AN ORANGE JUMP-SUIT FOR HIS TROUBLE…HEY..IF HE CAN TURN WATER INTO WINE…HMMM..MAYBE HE CAN TURN FERTALIZER INTO….KA-BOOM…WHOOPS…IT’S HELLO JESUS…YEAH…
SO LONG SUCKERS…GET RIGHT WITH YOUR CONSCIENCE AND STOP FOOTING THE BILL FOR ALL THIS CRAP..THAT IS THE ANSWER..NOT ‘GET RIGHT WITH GAW-DUH’…TAXES FOLKS..THE ONLY WAY…IMPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON THIS ROGUE CORPORATE FASCIST THEOCRACY…OR GET READY FOR CHECKPOINTS…IT IS COMING…THAT MUCH IS TRUE…AND GUESS WHAT? IT IS THE “RELIGIOUS RIGHT” THAT WILL BE IMPOSING IT’S WILL ON YOU…WITH A GUN” ANOTHER FACT…
September 13th, 2008 at 10:17 am
@ ECTOENDOMEZO
I think you got the wrong section, what the hell was you rant have to do with gouging gas prices?
Also it is very hard to read all cap crap.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:47 am
The seeming truth of the matter is that the public defended by the law enforcement agencies are the people above the agencies,everyone below is just dirt to be trodden upon,and to extract profit from in the event of any kind of misfortune or disaster or stiff breeze.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:50 am
TRANCEportation, anyone?
http://www.illuminatimatrix.wordpress.com
Click to find out their next plan of attack.
You need to know.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
To ECTOENDOMEZO I.E. myself
I will not eat green eggs and ham. Spam I am I will not eat green eggs and ham. I only type in caps because everyone in 1st grade does. If you dont like it suck my lizard. Green eggs and Ham I am.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
all religions are opiates—hence a planet full of drugged sheeple…
September 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
It’s surprising there were fights in Florida over gas….. When I lived there in 04, we were used to sitting in a gas lines after those hurricanes…..Back then, we had no power- so what else did we have to do, but to sit in a gas line?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I am adding this to my bookmarks. TY