Gas Shortage?

[Alan Nicholls]

I don't know about a shortage, but there was a gas station down the street
from me selling it for .99 on Friday.  There was a line for 2 miles!

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Paul Landry <p_landry at telus.net> wrote:

> Yep!..
>
> Apparently one of the Petro Can refineries in the Edmonton area suffered
> damage from a lightening strike.
> It took down a gas refining facility.  Not sure if it was the whole
> facility
> or just a large portion of it.
> According to today's paper that has been resolved and they are functional
> again but a week behind in production.  They had to ship gas from Eastern
> Canada to help fill the void this situation created.
>
> It is a joke, we have lots of crude, but just barely enough refining
> capacity and it takes NOTHING to upset that.  Big arguments about building
> more, but the cost is high, and the argument is that it is not cost
> effective, if what we have is not currently at capacity.  Depends on who's
> camp you are in if the argument / economics / accounting / etc. is a
> "valid"
> point of view..
>
> Pretty messed up system..  I really want the electric car, solar panel to
> charge it and no more dependency on all of this silliness.
>
>
> Paul W. Landry
> P_Landry at telus.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gpzlist-bounces at micapeak.com [mailto:gpzlist-bounces at micapeak.com]
> On
> Behalf Of scapco at ecentral.com
> Sent: July-31-09 8:08 PM
> To: gpzlist at micapeak.com
> Subject: Gas Shortage?
>
> Anyone heard of a gas shortage in Alberta Canada?  We ran into long lines
> and a bunch of Petro Canada stations closed and out of gas all the way
> between the US border and into Calgary.  We had dinner next to a closed
> station and all the pumps were wrapped with yellow tape labelled "Out of
> gas".
>
> Charles S.
> 1100 miles from
> home
>
>
>