I checked the Gas Buddy web site and found quite a surprise in Oklahoma where I am from I found that in Oklahoma City gasoline was going for $1.91 a gallon it has not hit that level here, the lowest price I was able to find here in Nashville was $2.39 a gallon in Smyrna. The bad thing is that we never ever go to Smyrna, I have not been there in years but if the price keeps being the cheapest there I may have to make a trip south for cheap gasoline I think I can make a special trip.
I paid $3.11 for gasoline today and I see where in far north Nashville the price has fallen to under $3.00 a gallon several gas stations have gasoline priced at $2.99 and one even down to $2.95. I hope it does not take to long to get it down to that low price in my area of town, we are lagging a bit on the price drop and I for one hope we get caught up and get the price down where the rest of the country is at. It is very hard to believe that we have some of the highest prices on gasoline in the country, makes it kind of hard to make a living driving a delivery truck.
The lines to get gas at the stations that had gas were out of sight, some stations had a two hour wait to get gas, and that is the stations that even had gasoline it was a circus for sure. I do not see an end to this ridiculous event as long as people act crazy and hoard gasoline. Just get gasoline when you have to and let the gas stations catch back up and we will be able to go back to normal around here. The storm is over but the back lash will last for a very long time with high prices for gasoline and a real shortage problem here in Nashville and Atlanta is worse I am hearing, I think I will stay home this week and save money.
The high price of gasoline has about driven us right out of business. It is costing us more to drive back and forth to work than we are making and it is plain crazy to keep doing it for very long if things do not change I will have to find me a part time job just to afford to drive to work everyday. We pay our drivers a flat fee to deliver the papers and they can not make any money either at this high gasoline price. As hard as it is to keep drivers I know if they can not make money they can not work for us and I do understand that.