Thursday that 10 Gulf Coast refineries with more than 3 million barrels of daily capacity remained shut down. 21, the last reading given by AAA before Harvey ravaged the Gulf Coast and numerous refineries along it. The manager of a 7-Eleven near Loop 410 and Vance Jackson, who identified himself only as Sonu, frantically directed traffic at his station and said his reserves were nearly depleted.Ībout one-fifth of the nation’s refining capacity was shut down for Harvey, and the refinery outages were causing gasoline prices to rise.ĪAA reported Thursday that gasoline hit its highest recorded average price for 2017 at $2.45 for a gallon of regular unleaded.Īverage prices were $2.33 on Aug. “You think this is bad? Go to the South Side,” Barrera said. “Everyone's looking at what's happening on Facebook,” Belk said.įrank Barrera went to eight gas stations on the South Side before going north and enduring the huge lines and occasional shouting match. He waited in line for over an hour before making it to a pump, having to physically push his car a few feet every 5 minutes or so.
Leroy Belk tried six different gas stations before he ran out of fuel at the H-E-B at Wurzbach and Interstate 10. “I woke up this morning with an empty tank,” he said Thursday, adding that he planned on filling up his SUV, truck and spare gas cans as soon as he could find a station with gas. Resident Jeremy Garcia, 31, said he tried to fill up at two stations after work Wednesday, but both were out of gas. “Don’t be misled by social media, which is causing people to panic and purchase more gas than necessary.” “Please purchase gas as you would normally do,” he said in a statement. “The lines create more panic, which means more people get into line, which creates more panic.” “There really isn’t a reason to panic,” Sitton said. He said he was much more concerned about reports of fistfights at gas stations than the idea that gasoline won’t be available. Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton spent much of his day trying to assure Texans that there are plenty of refined products available, and more will be moving into the market soon. “What I am an alarmist about is all of these other people freaking out.” “I’m not an alarmist about gasoline supply,” Ingham said. He’s not concerned about a lasting shortage of refined products, but said human psychology is a problem. Karr Ingham, an oil and gas economist based in Amarillo, said it will take the industry two to three weeks to get everything running smoothly again. Like grocery stores, gas stations are designed for normal consumption - they can’t handle it when everyone shows up at the same time to buy canned goods, bottled water and gasoline for all of their cars and spare gas cans. “It could lengthen the amount of time there’s a shortage, it could increases prices, it could cause a complete outage of gasoline for several days.” “If there’s a shortage, it’s going to be inflicted by people who are filling up,” DeHaan said. “People are freaking out,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy, adding the run on gas was “like a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” The port in Houston was reopening, too, on a limited basis, but plants in Beaumont/Port Arthur were closed and still flooded. The Port of Corpus Christi - a key point for shipping crude oil - reopened Thursday, though, clearing the way for those refineries to restart. The first refineries to close were in Corpus Christi and South Texas in advance of Harvey’s landfall in Rockport last Friday. San Antonio schools warned parents in a text alert that buses may be delayed by 30 minutes or more Friday morning due to “congestion around gas stations.”Ī cascade of refinery shutdowns along the coast has disrupted the supply of gasoline, and the Colonial Pipeline, the biggest fuel system in the U.S., shut down its main line Thursday.
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Lines four and five cars deep were forming at gas stations in Laredo, and there were reports that drivers in Dallas were in a similar panic. The run on gas wasn’t just in San Antonio. Her supplier said the outages will “go on for some time,” she said. “I have no control over mother nature,” Ravneet Dhillon said she told one frustrated customer. By 9:28 p.m., that number climbed to 270.Ĭars were lined up 15 to 20 deep at a Costco, and were five deep at a 7-Eleven Exxon station on the North Side, where the owner said she ran out of gas twice in the last 48 hours. The number of gas stations reportedly without fuelrose fast - from seven stations early Thursday afternoon to 95 by rush hour, according to data compiled by the gas price tracker GasBuddy.
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