Oh for crying out loud…

This summer's "gas shortage" has caused people around here to be too fucking jumpy and skittish.

There is a "RUMOUR" going around at the moment, that the gas pipeline from Tucson to Phoenix broke again.

I'm wagering that it's simply a matter of people being ignorant and stupid (baa-aahhh), and overreacting to a news brief that I found on azcentral.com about a very small leak that was found on Friday, and was subsequently repaired in less than two hours.

Did anyone notice it then? Or even two or three days later? Nnoooo... I'm also willing to wager that this rumour was spawned by news media trying to sensationalize any piece of information they can get on the problems with the pipeline (well, it is a piece of crap, after all). You know how they work, "Is the pipeline in more trouble than we realize? Find out at 10pm", and it just turns out to be a minor blurb about a tiny leak found and fixed in a matter of hours.

There have been co-workers calling in and telling us that some gas stations are already out of gas. Others saying that the lines are starting to form again, a la Summer of '03. Supposedly there is supposed to be some announcement at 10PM about what is going on.

I will laugh my ass off if it turns out to be about the leak on Friday.

But, the damage is already done. Lines are forming, some gas stations are already running out of gas (for the time being).

Fucking idiots.

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