If you are into big trucks, you will love Interstate 20.
Thousands of the big rigs use this road every day, and there are even more parked at truck stops.
On Tuesday, Stefanie, Judy, and I headed to Yazoo City. We had been in Oxford, Alabama, for three days watching Delta State University win the division tournament, and we were in high spirits. As we left the ball park, a gentleman from Louisiana asked where we were headed. Then he said, “I hope you have enough gas to get you home.”
Stefanie had topped off the tank, so the thought of not being able to buy gas never occurred to me. I reached for my trusty Iphone.
The hacking collective DarkSide had hacked the Colonel Pipeline that brought most of the gas to the Southeast, and in several states, stations were running out of gas - and gas prices were rising. Americans in nine states had begun “panic buying.” 8.5 percent of the gas stations in North Carolina were already out of gas. The trip to Yazoo City was beginning to worry me a little.
Soon we were in Tuscaloosa and I began to notice the trucks in the other lane, especially the tanker trucks. Sometimes they were nose to tail, but I noticed it was a steady flow.
After I had counted 25, I stopped, and yet they continued headed east, one after the other, until we stopped in Meridian to top off the tank. No gas shortage in Meridian.
Man is a resourceful creature. If the pipeline won’t work, the tanker trucks will. Some enterprising soul saw a need, and I suppose he commandeered every tanker truck he could find.
Perhaps the gas companies had a backup plan, so once the pipeline was down, the trucks began to roll. One way or the other, people were going to be able to buy gas.
The FBI has already identified the group who hacked the computers that control the pipeline. Did they wake up Joe Biden and tell him what is happening? This pipeline runs across several states, thus it is clear that Interstate Commerce is happening. This should be enough to get Joe awake and working.
We tuned into the news. Some irrational reporter was telling us that Joe was, even as she spoke, negotiating with the hackers. What? The “Sleepy One” is negotiating with criminals? These are terrorists bent on wrecking our economy. Get a grip, man! Get the CIA involved.
If the FBI has identified who did this destructive act, then tell the CIA. Give them some clear orders. “Go find the rats who did this and send them all to Hades.” This will send a message. Apparently, the DarkSide is not Chinese or Russian.
“Joe, you’ve got to be strong - and decisive! Do you have any idea how weak you appear to the rest of the world? Punch Joe! Punch the United States. Neither will fight back. They believe in negotiations which usually takes years, and by then, we’ve paid so much money in ransom that we could have built a new pipeline.”
Get ready. Gas prices will continue to rise during the Biden Administration, and I don’t think it is unreasonable to think that five dollars per gallon is the goal. Joe hates gasoline.
He doesn’t have the foggiest idea why. He loves Americans, yet he punishes them with his “love of mother earth.” He is a one man show standing against climate change and other nonsense while the common man and woman can’t get enough gasoline to get to work.
Higher gas prices, higher taxes, and out of control inflation are being brought to you each day courtesy of “Sleepy Joe Biden.” Until a rational person takes charge in the White House, we are in for a long, long, three and one-half years. Unlike Joe, don’t blame Trump.
