Recent Pictures of Gas Pumps In SCPlease tell me - what's the deal with this? This began on Thursday - several days before Hurricane Ike came ashore in Texas. Gas in SC has been reported as high as $5.49 and many gas stations have run out of gas. The average gas price in SC today is $4.070 today. The average gas price in the USA is $3.828.
Why are our gas prices so much higher than the national average?
Why did the so-called shortage and price hike start before Hurricane Ike even came ashore?
There was a time in our history when there was a true shortage in our nation and SC, just like all other states, shared the misery. In 1973, the Arab oil embargo sparked a series of events that did cause a true oil shortage.
During the 70's oil shortage, buying gas was based on the rotation of customers. License plates ending with even numbers got to buy gas on even numbered days and license plates ending with odd numbers got to buy gas on odd numbered days. Many gas stations were closed completely and others used colored flags pictured on the sign above. Gas lines were long and many times people would sit in the long lines for several hours. This didn't mean just because you were in line that you would get gas because the station owners would select a last car in the line allowed to get gas. You might be next in line but if you were behind the last car allowed to get gas, you were out of luck.
Many lessons were supposed to have been learned from the energy crisis in the 1970's but it seems that the Energy Commission might need to go back to the drawing board.
By the way, let us all keep the people in Texas in our prayers. They are faced with horrible devastation.
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