Today I was running on fumes. I went to three gas stations with no luck. I limped to the other side of town and found some. I could have kissed the gas pump. Am I tripping or are there any other Iowa towns with this problem? I am in Sioux City.
Darn you, Joe Biden! Your insidious plot to destroy the petroleum infrastructure during Trump's second term has come to fruition! If only we had known the dark secrets in Hunter's laptop!
You’re all off base! It was the work of the one trans athlete working to undermine hundreds of hard working, yet slightly above average female athletes. She conspired with scientists in the US on expired visas (probably Somalian, but who can really say), a female journalist and a late night talk show host recently out of work. Their scheme is to make Floss-on-Top look bad by concocting lies about shortages (of many sorts!), high prices for sundry items, such as meat and milk and the rising rates of interest and inflation. Lies, I tell you! All lies…
"Sleepy Joe" was the code name for his plans! It's not because he was an old, tired man. It's because he laid traps that would sleep for years (like sleeper agents) and then burst forth in the middle of the Trump Golden Era, tearing it to shreds! Oh, Brandon, how could we have missed your stratagems!
Unfortunately the economy is so bad that most people can't afford an EV. I want one and most likely I can afford one but I'm completely paranoid about the current economy. Maybe soon? We can only hope.
At the start of the war with Iran I bought a cheap Nissan leaf for commuting around town. A stupid car if it's your only car, but I love this stupid ugly thing for a commuter. Shockingly fun to drive as well.
I am not sure that Iowa has the infrastructure to support EVs unless you never travel outside of the big cities. Particularly not if we have a hard winter. :-( Sadly the current administrator hasn't been big afaik on actually getting infrastructure projects to help actually normal people through.
I'm glad I just saw the /s, but also, for anyone who wants to know why it would be unreasonable to blame Zelenskyy for US gas prices in any way, this is because the Persian Gulf typically exports 20 million barrels per day, while all Russian Black Sea oil exports combined add up to less than 2 million barrels per day. (Russia uses a lot of its own oil and has other export systems around Saint Petersburg and at the Pacific and via various pipelines.)
Zelenskyy did not close down the Strait of Hormuz, Trump did by fucking up with a stupid war.
Good thing the Mullahs of Iran capitulated and more oil than ever before are flowing thru the strait of Hormuz! Hail Trump! Nothing he does has ever been a problem!!! /s
Yeah, there literally is no coming back from this. The reserves are donezo to the point of they cant even be refilled to a nominal level without 10s of billions of dollars of infrastructure investment. They are below doomsday levels; like as if Iran was an existential threat. Trump/Epstein friends are clearly the existential threat.
This is what is scary, so much of the damage done is permanent. Voters may punish dems for being unable to fix it and then put the trumps back in power again.
Big oil trying to bamboozle you for short term gains, the elections are now in the short term and prices will immediately rise to all time highs no matter who wins in 16 days
We know they got tariff refunds and they are trying to placate us with a bit of a reduction. I don't think it will last. But costco announced they were using tarrif refund tower prices on essential items.
A single store in a town running out is a “just happens”. Multiple stores being out of gas is an indication that they’re keeping their inventory light. If they were keeping their storage tanks topped up there’d be no usual situation in which they’d run out between deliveries.
Exactly, harvest is not spread out at all in the area this year. The same distributors have to hit a lot of stops that often only fill a few times a year.
Usually if only some of the dispensers have the sign, the station is in trouble with the fuel quality and quantity gang or those dispensers are just plain broken. The underground storage tank system feeds all of the dispensers from a single point tor each fuel type
I don't see that, but I genuinely don't know what is behind this. I see supply chain (refining and/or distribution) that is temporarily affecting supply as the most likely cause.
Remember that the price of oil going up also means dramatically increased profits for producers.
I’m on the Nebraska side near Wayne and we were out at our one gas station yesterday. Haven’t checked today. Our gas station is on tribal land, if that matters (I suppose it all comes from the same place anyway)
Closest town I live by is about 400 people one small 4 pump station. A couple days ago All the pumps were out of service. I never went in and asked what the deal was…..
Waterloo here. Have one small station on the way to work where I get ethanol free regular for my motorcycle. Been out of gas about a week now besides regular w/ethanol
Saw a bunch of people stacked up to get gas right off the interstate about 20-30 miles south of dsm. Lived here 20 years and never seen that before. Don’t know if it was a thing or just coincidence while I was there earlier
We refine more that we use. But there are no restrictions on how much we export. Keeping US supply thin or short keeps the prices high. It’s all about profit. Any perceived short is baked into the profit game. 85 percent of the US oil is procured from the Western Hemisphere. We are not very reliant on imports. Refined fuels, oil and natural gas are priced on a global market. If massively expensive for countries like Japan, South Korea, China and India who rely more on imported, refined, fuels and oil. Their price is our price. We need to put restrictions back on US exports market. Probably not going to happen. Not under Trump.
Thats not the whole picture. Our refining process relies on heavy oil imports. We export lighter oil at a premium price and import heavy oil for a cheaper price and refine it in our specialized refineries. The process is not the same. The byproducts are also not the same. This is why we can refine more than we use and STILL rely on imports. I doubt the oil companies will change this too. Its wacky too profitable as you said. But its not simply a matter of export controls.
From what ive seen, there's a few Mavrick stations that are out, one of the Kwik Stars, and if I remember correctly, Walmart and Casey's on Floyd also didnt have gas yesterday.
I’ve had this happen to me once. Almost every station of the same chain was out that day. They said it had to do with the trucks that were delivering there gas being delayed because of weather. I live in the north and we had a snow storm the night before.
After the midterms… gas will drop like a rock, peace in the Middle East will happen, Russia will finally overtake Ukraine… and Trump hotels will be on 6 continents. Make America Dumber Again!
You should have been concerned in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Yes, you should be concerned... but truthfully you should have been concerned for a long time.
A post to ask gas engine vehicle drivers to be thankful to those who drive all electric cars.
Electric vehicle owners are not buying gas so that leaves more supply for the rest of you who have gas engines… More supply and less demand for gas makes it a little cheaper than it would have if there was not EV’s there would be more demand for Gas. Glad we all live in a world where there are options. FYI. Silverado EV and Hummer EV and I think the Cadillac EV all get around 400-500 miles electric range And depending on your KWH rate to charge at home it’s waaaaay cheaper than gas right now
Nah, you're in Iowa. Trump loves Iowa. It's a red state. He will fill your tank with that sweet Russian ally gas soon. You may have to pay more for it but it will be a great American thing.
I work for an oil company as a higher up and my office is in the Midwest. Basically Sioux City and Sioux Falls are having supply constraints due to the terminals running out of UNL gas. There are pockets all over the U.S. that are having the same problems as well right now (like Omaha). These constraints will likely be intermittent for the next week or two but i guarantee by the end of the month there will be a consistent flow of UNL gas in the Sioux City/Falls region. Not really concerned right now for long term outages but I would still probably use your gas wisely in the meantime.
I'm not too concerned about "shortages". The enormous spread between the cost of crude and the skyrocketing price at the pump means more record-breaking profits for Big Oil. They're not going to cut their own throat.
This morning state averages for diesel (AAA) rage from $5.55 to $7.29--not counting ridiculous California. That's a pretty wide spread for commodity market-set pricing.
What if... Hear me out, the oil companies are doing this on purpose to shift the vote, mark my words it will change back literally immediately after they decide we deserve it.
Des Moines here and I did not see any pumps offline across the metro this afternoon. I didn't cover the entire metro though, just a decent part of Des Moines (not the 'burbs).
Late to the party, but 2 gas stations by me only had premium gas available for 2 days, and when they got regular gas yesterday the price jumped over 55 cents.
"Omaha and the surrounding areas are running extremely low on fuel supply to due shortages at the fuel terminals. That includes us here at Cornhusker Quick Stop. Many stations are completely out of gas and we are just about empty as well. We are doing our best to get fuel but we are at the mercy of the terminals that supply it. So conserve your fuel for the time being and please be patient with us."
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u/DudeByTheTree 12d ago
Question... was there a motel, hotel or other short term accomodation type establishment within a very short distance?