East Coast Gas Shortage

Dutch_12078 wrote:

WTP-GC wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:
According to the Tennessee Emergency Management director, the only reason there are shortages is because people are hoarding gas by filling their tanks before they need to and filling every possible container as a hedge against price increases...

So in other words, he's saying that people should not make reasonable efforts to be prepared in the event of an emergency. Idiotic government hack...

Except in this case there never was an "emergency"...

Well, if there was no emergency, then what's the problem?
This situation isn't any different than me buying the last 2 generators ahead of a storm because I have both a house and a barn that needs power, and then some bureaucrat telling me that I've done something bad because I didn't leave a generator for the next guy.