Emergency Manager and San Angelo PD: No Gas Shortage, There is NO need to Panic

 

SAN ANGELO, TX -- From the San Angelo Police Department:  

“The run on local gas stations has been caused by false reports of gasoline shortages, the Texas Division of Emergency Management has told San Angelo’s local emergency management coordinator.

Gasoline supply pipelines between Houston refineries and a Dallas distribution center were temporarily shut down to avoid possible contamination caused by damage from Hurricane Harvey’s flooding. Those supply lines have since returned to full operations.

“There is no need to panic,” Emergency Management Coordinator Steve Mild said. “People can conduct business as usual.”

Mild stressed his information comes directly from TDEM’s State Operations Center, which received details from the Dallas distribution center. The stir, the State Operations Center reported, seemed to have been ignited in Dallas by two minor media outlets there.

The Texas Division of Emergency Management is an agency of the Texas Department of Public Safety.”

But the lines for gas keep forming. This drone footage shows San Angeloans lined up at the pumps at MarketStreet off College Hills this afternoon (compliments Relative Marketing):
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From the City of San Angelo: The run on local gas stations has been caused by false reports of gasoline shortages, the Texas Division of Emergency Management has told San Angelo’s local emergency management coordinator.

Gasoline supply pipelines between Houston refineries and a Dallas distribution center were temporarily shut down to avoid possible contamination caused by damage from Hurricane Harvey’s flooding. Those supply lines have since returned to full operations.

“There is no need to panic,” Emergency Management Coordinator Steve Mild said. “People can conduct business as usual.”

Mild stressed his information comes directly from TDEM’s State Operations Center, which received details from the Dallas distribution center. The stir, the State Operations Center reported, seemed to have been ignited in Dallas by two minor media outlets there.

The Texas Division of Emergency Management is an agency of the Texas Department of Public Safety

UPDATED 8/31/2017

AUSTIN, TX -- Texas Rail Road Commissioner Christi Craddick told KXAN, "We have gasoline.  We have enough gasoline across the country and we have enough gasoline in Texas.  So don't run out and fill up your tank, you're ok.  What we are now seeing is companies as well as the logistics world looking at how you get it from the refinery through the pipes to the truck, to your local station.  If your local gas station doesn't have gas, go down the street."

SAN ANGELO, TX -- San Angelo is not running out of gas.  A spokesperson for Regal Oil confirmed Thursday afternoon that the San Angelo wholesale gasoline distributor who provides gas to Alon and 7-Eleven is not running out of gas and there is no shortage.

The Stripes Convenience Store at Christoval Rd. and S. Chadbourne St. is seeing lines form on Aug. 31, 2017. (LIVE! Photo/Joe Hyde)
Above: The Stripes Convenience Store at Christoval Rd. and S. Chadbourne St. is seeing lines form on Aug. 31, 2017. (LIVE! Photo/Joe Hyde)

While some refineries are shut down temporarily, Regal Oil has gasoline and continues to receive shipments.  While supplies may be temporarily limited, San Angelo is not running out of gas.  

Some gas stations have run out as social media continues to spread rumors leading people to rush to fill up their tanks, but gasoline is available.  

This is a developing story.  We will update details as they become available.

The gas station on base is seeing lines form on aug. 21, 2017. (LIVE! Photo/Joe Hyde)

Above: The gas station on Goodfellow AFB is seeing lines form on Aug. 31, 2017. (LIVE! Photo/Joe Hyde)

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Stripes on Sherwood Way is out of gas.
SAPD needs to get out and direct traffic around gas stations, before there is a major accident. People are blocking entrances and exits with their lines, and the streets!.....this is insane!

This is partly why I'm a card carrying misanthrope.

I wonder how many are looking up the definition now.

Go drive around to places that sell gasoline right now and you will see confirmed proof that about 95,500 residents of San Angelo are nothing more than slobbering idiots........

Life is hard...it's harder when you're stupid! So you sit in line at a gas station for no apparent reason!

They sit in line at a gas station with their engines running, thus burning fuel.

WTH, Thu, 08/31/2017 - 15:29

If you walk outside the visitors center on the river side there is a plaque that states something like the following.
The Native Americans called this place the river of nuts.
Today out truly was!

and i had to waste my time in a line of cars because people are too lazy to see if a facebook meme is real (protip: it's not real 90% of the time)

It happens everytime that area of the coast gets hit by a hurricane. Those that know that were not sitting in line at the stations, they filled up earlier in the week.

Blame social media, while there has been more about this FUBAR in the news, than on any social media. It is almost hilarious blaming social media when social media is supposed to the ill informed informing the uniformed. The news media is doing it's best to get the news out about the "shortage" that created the panic buying.

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