“My cousin’s friend has a friend whose father is a tanker truck driver, and he says they’re telling him there won’t be gasoline for three weeks. So we’re going to fill up.”
And that may be how the gasoline shortage began.
Or maybe you saw the photos on Facebook, the one with the plastic bags of gasoline filling the trunk of the car or maybe the one at the gas station of a woman filling a plastic bag full of gasoline.
If you did, you probably had two thoughts. The first was: What an idiot! Who would do something so careless and dangerous (not to mention having your car smell like gasoline for the next six months)? The second was: If people are doing this, maybe there really is a gas shortage. I better go fill up my car.
And that’s how the gas shortage may have worsened.