quote:

Originally posted by texassierra:
It appears that some stations here in DFW are taking the opportunity to raise prices. I filled up my truck with diesel Sunday at $2.50 a gallon. Yesterday the same station was $2.89.

You might check again. Some stations up here briefly spiked yesterday to $2.80ish for 87 octane gas, but they settled back down to $2.50ish today. Could have just been station owners briefly overreacting until they could confirm that their next shipment wasn't going to be affected.

quote:

Originally posted by RogueJSK:

quote:

Originally posted by texassierra:
It appears that some stations here in DFW are taking the opportunity to raise prices. I filled up my truck with diesel Sunday at $2.50 a gallon. Yesterday the same station was $2.89.

You might check again. Some stations up here briefly spiked yesterday to $2.80ish for 87 octane gas, but they settled back down to $2.50ish today. Could have just been station owners briefly overreacting until they could confirm that their next shipment wasn't going to be affected.

Gasoline prices going up in Dallas is idiotic. Dallas gets nearly all of its gasoline from the Gulf Coast and the Gulf Coast refined product tankage is getting fuller than my fat ass after Thanksgiving dinner.

Dallas should be one of the "relief valves" for pressure on refined product tankage on the Gulf Coast.

Things seem normal here outside of Philly. Just went to top off this evening, and the station was the same as it was a few days ago when I last filled up. Same prices, no lines, no signs of impending doom.

Unfortunately, my parents are in VA right now and I'm worried they'll get screwed on the drive home.

quote:

Originally posted by RogueJSK:

quote:

Originally posted by texassierra:
It appears that some stations here in DFW are taking the opportunity to raise prices. I filled up my truck with diesel Sunday at $2.50 a gallon. Yesterday the same station was $2.89.

You might check again. Some stations up here briefly spiked yesterday to $2.80ish for 87 octane gas, but they settled back down to $2.50ish today. Could have just been station owners briefly overreacting until they could confirm that their next shipment wasn't going to be affected.

A quick check of Gasbuddy shows most stations in my area still at $2.89 for diesel and regular gas.

Ah, yes, the Panicky Cattle Planet, aka Earth.

"Why do you need guns?"

Because "society" and "civilization" are a thin veneer over the real world. If things ever really do go south, you'll probably have to shoot a few people. You know, just until they get the idea, and then they'll leave you alone.

Some guy in China sneezes and I can't get Charmin for eighteen months. Fuck this planet.

quote:

Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
Things seem normal here outside of Philly. Just went to top off this evening, and the station was the same as it was a few days ago when I last filled up. Same prices, no lines, no signs of impending doom.

Well, you got a few refineries right out your back door. And we're not slowing down one bit supplying crude to them. As a matter of fact, we're about to drop off over 300,000 barrels of crude tonight then head back down to the bay for more.

quote:

Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Treat the stupid employee that opened the link as a corporate saboteur.

The employee who opened the bad link will probably never know they did it, if the company responds properly. As stupid as it was, it was the company's fault for letting that shit in. Unfortunately the software for watching that shit is not entirely up to par, esp. for a zero day attack. It is what it is. Until TCP networking gets more sophisticated, we can expect plenty of this in droves. Same thing happened to my company, the employee never knew, since it was the company's fault for letting that email into the network. Security is a two edged sword. If your computer system is perfectly secure, it's not running. IT in general has lots of classic engineering trade offs, like anything else in life.

Sometimes the email looks fine, but it's still a bomb, since all bombs are hidden by definition. So if you still believe that employee should be fired, consider yourself lucky it wasn't you.

Went to get gas in MD this evening. I was at less than a 1/8 tank so I need to fill up. Station was full with a short line. Luckily some fools in front of me couldn't back into a pump so was able to get in and out quickly. What a mess.

quote:

Originally posted by CoolRich59:

In my last job, we hired a security firm to run fake cyberattacks on our employees...

They do that often at my job. But I've turned the tables on them. I'm almost a year out of date on my annual online "cyber security" refresher training. If and when they push the issue, I'm going to tell them I didn't open the links in the email because I thought it might be a scam or phishing attempt.

Getting pretty annoying in NC.

My department uses fuelman cards, so we’re using regular gas stations for the vast majority of us. All of them in my 65 sq mile division ran out tonight. I found some in the next division over, but it got tight. Our Ford SUVs get about 14mpg.

I’m supposed to go to the beach Saturday. Gonna be hellapissed if that gets waylaid. In a normal month we probably use two tanks of gas total in our household these days.

quote:

Originally posted by comet24:
Went to get gas in MD this evening. I was at less than a 1/8 tank so I need to fill up. Station was full with a short line. Luckily some fools in front of me couldn't back into a pump so was able to get in and out quickly. What a mess.

Yep. We haven't had any outages here in MD that I'm aware of, but you're west of me and my paralegal is down near Waldorf. We both had to wait in lines to gas up yesterday evening.

I just gave her permission to work from home for the rest of the week since she has a pretty good commute. I'll probably do the same, but mainly because I prefer it mostly and have plenty of work with me.

Tomorrow, Mrs.BurtonRW and I are supposed to be taking our mothers for a late Mother's Day outing... to Richmond. At least I'll be armed in VA in case things go all Mad Max.

-Rob

quote:

Originally posted by wrightd:

Sometimes the email looks fine, but it's still a bomb, since all bombs are hidden by definition. So if you still believe that employee should be fired, consider yourself lucky it wasn't you.

We actually have training sessions and warnings on the latest phishing schemes from our IT department.

This is a major strategic infrastructure that the office people should know better. Even our email systems display all links in the document before opened. Our mail service scans all links and attatchments before transferring to recipient.

I get the fake ones from my "bank" at least once a month. If you pay attention in training, you can spot them right away.

Where I'm at in the ENC all the stations are pretty much tapped; talked to a buddy out near Bragg and he said the same thing there. I filled up yesterday morning around 0500 and by late afternoon everyone was running out.

I remember my parents talking about the crunch when I was a kid (born in '74) didn't they have a system where you could only get gas based on your plate number or something? (asking for historical purposes). As far as electric vehicles, I've lived through WAY more power shortages than gas shortages

I guess the eastern panhandle of WV hasn’t gotten the memo yet. Filled up the Taco at the Flying J on I-81 at the VA line and an extra 5 gallon can more than normal for the lawn mower/chain saw/just in case. No lines, plenty of fuel.

These active exploitations of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange for on-premises products should serve as a lesson & model for keeping your I T operations updated. It doesn’t take much to exploit exposed vulnerabilities to allow an attacker to access on-premises Exchange Servers, enabling them to gain persistent system access and control of an enterprise network. There is no excuse for not following best practices…

What occurred yesterday that caused the panic? This has been in the news for a week and potential for shortages reported for days. Yesterday morning, normal. Noon yesterday.....lines everywhere. What caused everybody to leave their houses beginning and lunch to go seek gas.

Was there a report in the media or the news that triggered folks?

I ran up to Costco at 0615 this morning as my tank was empty. Long line but not like yesterday but normally this time of the morning, there'd be nobody queued up.

I saw a guy next to me with five 5-gal racing fuel type bottles he probably bought from Autozone or something. He filled all up and had them sitting in the back-seat of his 20yo Honda Accord. Yeah, way to be part of the problem, dude.

I’ve been in the Outer Banks of NC for the last week getting our beach house ready for the rental season starting this Saturday and have not been watching the news etc. drove by one gas station yesterday and saw a line and thought that was odd. Then at the second one there was a line but shorter so After I went to the hardware store I went online and read the news. I then decided to top up my Jeep Gladiator to be sure I’ll be able to make it home (+400 miles) today.
Last month I installed a Long Range America auxiliary gas tank into the Jeep giving me an additional 17 gallons of capacity and damn if it isn’t already starting to pay off!

quote:

Originally posted by smlsig:
Last month I installed a Long Range America auxiliary gas tank into the Jeep giving me an additional 17 gallons of capacity and damn if it isn’t already starting to pay off!

Smart move on your part smlsig.


Topping off your gas tank doesn't qualify as gas hoarding. That and filling up a small gas can are all most people are able to do.
Anyone who didn't do these things may just be out of luck. That's the reality.

We have a perfect storm of problems here in the Florida Panhandle. EPA shut down one of our fuel terminals because they still had winter fuel blends, although I have no idea what that's about. There is a shortage of tanker drivers, and the trucks have to travel further. The pipeline hacking fiasco has triggered folks already nervous about the Keystone pipeline shutdown into filling her up-just like when a hurricane is coming. At least EPA issued an emergency waiver so the local fuel terminal is open again. Seems our fuel situation has gone from being robust to fragile in a few short months. You would almost think Jimmy Carter is back in the White House....

quote:

almost think Jimmy Carter is back in the White House....

I can deal with all that shit -- I just hope disco doesn't come back.