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The Colonial Pipeline spill has caused 6 states (Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina) to declare a state of emergency. Gasoline (petrol) prices on the east coast are likely to spike. Yet, most puzzling is how this vast emergency and its likely effect on cost of living has gone unnoticed by mainstream media outlets. The pipeline is owned by Koch Industries: is this why the media is silent?
[Are there any Soylentils in the affected area who can corroborate this story? Have you heard of the spill, seen long gas lines, or any price gouging? -Ed.]
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Six US States Declare Emergency after Major Gasoline Pipeline Spill; Media Almost Silent
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One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 19 2016, @12:00PM
Maybe its good. Not entirely kidding. If they cover the "great gas shortage in Atlanta" over in California you know that there will be enough idiots rushing out to top off their half full tank to full, that they'll cause their own unrelated "bank run" style shortage in California.
Something to think about is in the upper midwest we have a killer blizzard maybe once a year and the authorities tell everyone to stay home and if possible work from home that day. Its just BAU and not a big deal because we're used to it. IF it were a serious problem then you'd see the state highway patrol advising people not to travel if at all possible and major corporations emitting saccharine PR puff piece news releases about how they're saving gas for the fire trucks by having office employees stay home and VPN in rather than burn gas. I'm not seeing that. Southerners aren't stupider than northerners, so I'm sure they'd be implementing that stuff if there was a real problem. Then again this could be the economist refusing to pick up a $20 from the sidewalk because markets are efficient therefore the $20 bill can't exist.
(Score: 2) by schad on Monday September 19 2016, @12:55PM
Nobody in the major Southern cities is ever prepared for anything. Every time anything goes wrong, there's panic. We can't even handle really trivial things like traffic jams or lane closures. Anywhere else in the country people would just route around the obstruction. Not here. Here, people seem to believe there is exactly one way to get from A to B.
The only emergency we're really equipped to handle down here is losing the air conditioning.
That's actually a great example of the different types of intelligence. Northerners have the book learnin'; Southerners just get 'er done. That's been very much borne out by my experience living in both areas.
But there's nothing in this world dumber than a northerner who's living in the South, and they (we) seem to make up a majority of the residents of southern cities.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 19 2016, @02:44PM
Nobody in the major Southern cities is ever prepared for anything.
Hurricanes? Tornados?
I lived in high tech redneck area in Alabama for a year maybe 20 years ago and I enjoyed it greatly although I donno how representative it is to have a community where like 50% of the civilians have PHDs.
Both the PHD locals and the general population you'd see on the news tended to have it together for hurricanes and tornadoes (it severe thunderstormed like every freaking afternoon in the late summer, or so it seemed).
I never got to see them in a frost or snow flurries situation.