Oh, the scariest thing I saw was people filling plastic bags with gasoline. All I can say is their parents failed them big time, if they never learned not to do something that incredibly stupid.
I rest somewhat easier knowing that the “Gas Panic” seems to have taken place mostly in “Red States” where rumors seem to have more traction, and, obviously, idiocy is much more rampant.
my English husband was looking at photo’s of bags of gas in someone’s SUV and being gobsmacked and moaning at me from the room next to the living room and I was listening to Kimmell talking about people and he showed pictures of people with gas cans stacked in the back on their fucking SIDES.. so he HAD to show me the photo’s of bags GARBAGE BAGS with gasoline. I wondered what happens if they spring a leak????? are people losing their minds??
Look people, they have 1000s of rolls of toilet paper. They have to get rid of them as there is no room in the house. They need 300 gallons of gas to burn the TP to get rid of it!!
I lived thru a gas shortage while stationed in Sacramento CA 1972-75. That was when OPEC shut off the US. Where I lived there were no lines, rather, unless you got car repair done at their station before the shut down began, they had no gas
How did Colonial get hit with the malware? Who is their soon-to-be-fired CTO that ALLOWED this to happen? If I can afford a premium subscription to Malwarebytes, why can’t the company?
Software is every bit a part of the company’s infrastructure as are pipelines, loading docks, warehouses, tanks and rail lines. It’s worth putting money into it.
OK, so you are hit with ransomware: You shut down the network, format the hard drives, reinstall the operating system, load the software and restore from your off-site, secure backups. It should take 2-3 days for the critical systems and maybe a whole work week to get to the computer used by the intern.
I feel somewhat sorry for a neighbor of mine. She couldn’t get to her extra gas cans because they were buried behind the toilet paper, canned goods, and Clorox Wipes she hoarded last year.
A couple years ago DallasTV noon news said QuikTrip fuel trucks would be late, so some of their stores might run out of gas – also saying there was plenty of gas everywhere else. By late afternoon there were gas lines at most gas stations, price gouging and a few fistfights.
Here’s the thing. I would understand keeping two or three 5 gallon proper gas cans in the garage with a fuel stabilizing additive if I lived in hurricane areas. Using it all when the season is over, as even stabilized fuel will go bad eventually.
I wonder how much gas people burned waiting in line to panic buy gas?
Amazing how rumors get started. I read where a grocery store checker got a second job at a gas station and asked customers, “Paper bags or plastic ?” It must be true. It was on the internet.
This “shortage” will not last very long at all, because there is plenty of gas – it’s just the distribution system that got temporarily disrupted. Panicked people around here are paying $3.10 per gallon for the same gas that was already delivered and priced at $2.60 last week… some price gougers are charging even more, and laughing all the way to the bank…
I just read where Colonial Pipeline paid $5 M to the hackers. So who pays for this, the shareholders or the customers?
As the old saying goes, “You don’t have to back up any of your files, only the ones you want to keep.”
I’ve been backing up my files since my Apple II+ days. I suppose it is too much to expect a “professional” company to do the same with their files. If they did not have such pathetic computer security practices, they would not have gotten the malware in the first place and now they don’t have backups? Obviously, their mission critical systems are on the same network with everyone else in the company.
This is deplorable IT policy ranking right up there with companies that store their customers’ login credentials in plain text instead of encrypting them.
What’s with these highly-paid, so-called IT “managers” at these companies. Such activity would have earned them a failing grade in Computer 101 in any grade school in America. I have an 11-year old granddaughter. I’ll submit her resume for the soon-to-be-vacated (we hope) Chief Technology Officer position at Colonial Pipeline.
I can’t say enough negative things about Colonial Pipeline. Such incompetence should be punished.
During the Cali PG&E blackouts of 2019 gas generators were the rage selling 400% above MSRP. I was setting up my Dads and ran to the local station to fill up some jerry cans, came upon a Liberal filling up a 15 gallon FISH TANK in the back of Her Subaru with the COEXIST bumper sticker next to her my Trans Kindergarten loves it’s to Mommys sticker. She had that look of GO AHEAD SAY SOMETHING on her scowling mug.
There was never any reason to panic, really. Firstly, contributing to the run on gas just makes the situation worse for everyone. It’s called the tragedy of the commons.
Secondly, the pipeline is already back up and running. Oh, and Biden signed an executive order to enhance our cybersecurity.
I am old enough to remember when “It must be true, I read it on the internet” was a joke. It was funny because it was illogical to think that there were people stupid enough to believe that what they read on the internet was infallibly true.
I guess that’s why the joke is no longer funny today.
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
I’m sure most of you have played “gossip” or “phone chain”. This kinda like that but with a premium for distortion in one direction.
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
I wonder how many other people took advantage to take a day or two off from work instead?
Saw a gas station was price gouging at $6.99. Chances are good that both the supplier and the town, if not state, will be contacting them soon.
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
Oh, the scariest thing I saw was people filling plastic bags with gasoline. All I can say is their parents failed them big time, if they never learned not to do something that incredibly stupid.
wellis1947 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I rest somewhat easier knowing that the “Gas Panic” seems to have taken place mostly in “Red States” where rumors seem to have more traction, and, obviously, idiocy is much more rampant.
basilisk Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Panic Hoarding is just one reason we can’t have nice things.
loonygardener almost 3 years ago
my English husband was looking at photo’s of bags of gas in someone’s SUV and being gobsmacked and moaning at me from the room next to the living room and I was listening to Kimmell talking about people and he showed pictures of people with gas cans stacked in the back on their fucking SIDES.. so he HAD to show me the photo’s of bags GARBAGE BAGS with gasoline. I wondered what happens if they spring a leak????? are people losing their minds??
Walter Kocker Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Let’s see . . .
Storing gasoline in plastic bags next to the 300 rolls of toilet paper left over from the last manufactured “shortage” sounds OK.
I can’t imagine any problems . . .
(sigh)
Carl Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Except its not people talking to people its media hyping the latest “crisis” and looking for gas lines to film and push.
Tralfaz Premium Member almost 3 years ago
One should never waste a good crisis, so how about maybe giving out a full gas can with each vaccine shot?
Patjade almost 3 years ago
Funny how this “shortage” didn’t hurt the gas supplier’s bottom line. They eventually resolve the issue and pocket some extra profits.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Look people, they have 1000s of rolls of toilet paper. They have to get rid of them as there is no room in the house. They need 300 gallons of gas to burn the TP to get rid of it!!
timbob2313 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I lived thru a gas shortage while stationed in Sacramento CA 1972-75. That was when OPEC shut off the US. Where I lived there were no lines, rather, unless you got car repair done at their station before the shut down began, they had no gas
A# 466 almost 3 years ago
Stahler’s channeling Norman Rockwell here.
dflak almost 3 years ago
I saw a picture of one lady filling up one of the 10 gas cans she had in her hatch back.
How to love your neighbor, make sure you get all of yours so he can’t get his.
The Nodding Head almost 3 years ago
See also bank runs in times of yore
FrankErnesto almost 3 years ago
Sorry, no vaxx, no gas. Next.
dflak almost 3 years ago
I have a couple of questions.
How did Colonial get hit with the malware? Who is their soon-to-be-fired CTO that ALLOWED this to happen? If I can afford a premium subscription to Malwarebytes, why can’t the company?
Software is every bit a part of the company’s infrastructure as are pipelines, loading docks, warehouses, tanks and rail lines. It’s worth putting money into it.
OK, so you are hit with ransomware: You shut down the network, format the hard drives, reinstall the operating system, load the software and restore from your off-site, secure backups. It should take 2-3 days for the critical systems and maybe a whole work week to get to the computer used by the intern.
sandpiper almost 3 years ago
Panic, the big seller. Advertising sale staff would just salivate for such a sure sales booster.
shamest Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Panic Panic Panic ! Some of these folk are the same that don’t panic after the tornado hit and help out the neighbor. I don’t understand.
Bookworm almost 3 years ago
I feel somewhat sorry for a neighbor of mine. She couldn’t get to her extra gas cans because they were buried behind the toilet paper, canned goods, and Clorox Wipes she hoarded last year.
thelordthygod666 almost 3 years ago
A couple years ago DallasTV noon news said QuikTrip fuel trucks would be late, so some of their stores might run out of gas – also saying there was plenty of gas everywhere else. By late afternoon there were gas lines at most gas stations, price gouging and a few fistfights.
KEA almost 3 years ago
Apparently, the bank runs of the Depression taught us nothing
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 3 years ago
All I know is Johnny Carson started a brief toilet paper shortage back in 1973.
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
Here’s the thing. I would understand keeping two or three 5 gallon proper gas cans in the garage with a fuel stabilizing additive if I lived in hurricane areas. Using it all when the season is over, as even stabilized fuel will go bad eventually.
I wonder how much gas people burned waiting in line to panic buy gas?
The Love of Money is . . . almost 3 years ago
Amazing how rumors get started. I read where a grocery store checker got a second job at a gas station and asked customers, “Paper bags or plastic ?” It must be true. It was on the internet.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
One station was charging $7 a gallon.
ferddo almost 3 years ago
This “shortage” will not last very long at all, because there is plenty of gas – it’s just the distribution system that got temporarily disrupted. Panicked people around here are paying $3.10 per gallon for the same gas that was already delivered and priced at $2.60 last week… some price gougers are charging even more, and laughing all the way to the bank…
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid $5M to hackers after ransomware attack
CNET · 1h
The republicans best friend Putin gets a 40% cut of the ransom.
ndblackirish97 almost 3 years ago
Media didn’t help cause the exaggeration drove ratings up for them.
dflak almost 3 years ago
I just read where Colonial Pipeline paid $5 M to the hackers. So who pays for this, the shareholders or the customers?
As the old saying goes, “You don’t have to back up any of your files, only the ones you want to keep.”
I’ve been backing up my files since my Apple II+ days. I suppose it is too much to expect a “professional” company to do the same with their files. If they did not have such pathetic computer security practices, they would not have gotten the malware in the first place and now they don’t have backups? Obviously, their mission critical systems are on the same network with everyone else in the company.
This is deplorable IT policy ranking right up there with companies that store their customers’ login credentials in plain text instead of encrypting them.
What’s with these highly-paid, so-called IT “managers” at these companies. Such activity would have earned them a failing grade in Computer 101 in any grade school in America. I have an 11-year old granddaughter. I’ll submit her resume for the soon-to-be-vacated (we hope) Chief Technology Officer position at Colonial Pipeline.
I can’t say enough negative things about Colonial Pipeline. Such incompetence should be punished.
I wonder if they are still on Windows XP?
Ammo is on a break Premium Member almost 3 years ago
During the Cali PG&E blackouts of 2019 gas generators were the rage selling 400% above MSRP. I was setting up my Dads and ran to the local station to fill up some jerry cans, came upon a Liberal filling up a 15 gallon FISH TANK in the back of Her Subaru with the COEXIST bumper sticker next to her my Trans Kindergarten loves it’s to Mommys sticker. She had that look of GO AHEAD SAY SOMETHING on her scowling mug.
VadimUzdensky1 almost 3 years ago
There was never any reason to panic, really. Firstly, contributing to the run on gas just makes the situation worse for everyone. It’s called the tragedy of the commons.
Secondly, the pipeline is already back up and running. Oh, and Biden signed an executive order to enhance our cybersecurity.
Sparkys44 almost 3 years ago
1973 all over again… all political BS IMHO
Awesome Steelers almost 3 years ago
SMH @ Mass Confusion! #Sad
dflak almost 3 years ago
I am old enough to remember when “It must be true, I read it on the internet” was a joke. It was funny because it was illogical to think that there were people stupid enough to believe that what they read on the internet was infallibly true.
I guess that’s why the joke is no longer funny today.
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
I didn’t have to be psychic to predict some of the related news reports.
https://www.motor1.com/news/507216/hummer-h2-gasoline-hoarding-fire/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPXpdJtzyo
https://wgntv.com/news/smell-at-louisiana-hotel-turns-out-to-be-guest-storing-gas-fire-officials-say/
Plus stupid thieves, he’s lucky he didn’t light himself on fire doing something so foolish:
https://gizmodo.com/suspected-gas-punk-apprehended-amidst-gaspocalypse-1846886060
I’m wondering how many more are going unreported?