{"id":25351,"date":"2017-09-07T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T23:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25351"},"modified":"2017-09-07T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T23:34:42","slug":"panic-buying-of-gasoline-in-florida-40-of-miami-stations-out-of-gas-blame-anti-gouging-laws-for-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25351","title":{"rendered":"Panic Buying of Gasoline in Florida, 40% of Miami Stations Out of Gas: Blame Anti-Gouging Laws for Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"amp-wp-article-header\">\n<h3 class=\"amp-wp-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mishtalk.com\/2017\/09\/07\/panic-buying-of-gasoline-in-florida-40-of-miami-stations-out-of-gas-blame-anti-gouging-laws-for-shortages\/amp\/\">Panic Buying of Gasoline in Florida, 40% of Miami Stations Out of Gas: Blame Anti-Gouging Laws for Shortages<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"amp-wp-article-content\">\n<p>As Hurricane Irma nears Florida, everyone is in a rush to fill up their tanks. About 40% of the gasoline stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale region are now without fuel.\u00a0Floridians have turned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu\/post\/facing-fuel-shortages-floridians-can-use-gas-buddy-app#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crowd-Sourced\u00a0\u2018Gas Buddy\u2019 App<\/a> to determine which stations still have gas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mishgea.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/gas-buddy-miami.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/mishgea.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/gas-buddy-miami.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above image from the web version of <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.gasbuddy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gas Buddy Tracker<\/a>. Zoom into the area you\u2019re looking for gas to see the red and green symbols indicating fuel shortages. Gas Buddy says the mobile app is more accurate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Patrick DeHaan, the senior petroleum analyst at Gas Buddy, said their newest feature \u2013 the Gas Availability Tracker \u2013 has now been rolled out to those who could be affected by Hurricane Irma in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tool seeks to help motorists in need to find gasoline, and certainly in some cases. will also help motorists find stations that have power,\u201d DeHaan said.<\/p>\n<p>The app was developed during Hurricane Harvey in Texas. People can log in to view gas stations in their area. A red fuel pump icon indicates the station currently has gas. A red lightning bolt icon indicates the station has power, especially helpful for those in areas affected by power outages.<\/p>\n<p>The data is largely crowdsourced by users who submit information through the app.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced in Miami that he\u2019s asked the governors of Alabama and Georgia to waive trucking regulations so tankers can get fuel into the city, which is experiencing one of the largest shortages statewide as residents prepare for the hurricane\u2019s landfall.<\/p>\n<p>He told residents of the Florida Keys that \u201cwe\u2019re doing everything to get fuel to you as quickly as possible.\u201d Tourists are under a mandatory evacuation order, which began Wednesday morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panic Buying of Gasoline in Florida, 40% of Miami Stations Out of Gas: Blame Anti-Gouging Laws for Shortages As Hurricane Irma nears Florida, everyone is in a rush to fill up their tanks. About 40% of the gasoline stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale region are now without fuel.\u00a0Floridians have turned to the Crowd-Sourced\u00a0\u2018Gas Buddy\u2019 App [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[940,3936,15807,12868,14648,13390],"class_list":["post-25351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-florida","tag-gasoline-shortages","tag-hurricane-irma","tag-miami","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25352,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25351\/revisions\/25352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}