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Hurricane Ike has presented new challenges to the southern and southeastern United States. With the impact that this massive storm has brought, destruction has created problems for oil refineries and gas stations all over the southern coastal and gulf states. The rise in gas prices has increased in some low country areas to over $5.00 per gallon and is proving to be a major challenge for drivers. Ike has left the society in shambles.
In South Carolina, many gas stations had no gas at one point to offer to their customers. This is a direct cause of the shortage in fuel being provided to the coastal
states due to the selected refineries being shut down. Many South Carolinians are finding themselves waiting in long lines for a gas pump, only to discover that they
are unable to fill their tanks will little more than 10 gallons of fuel. This limit in gas per customer only came when the various gas stations were running out of
gas in a moment's time.
The shortage in South Carolina slowly replenished itself, and still has limits per customer at various stations. However, the intake of fuel by these gas stations has
not yet allowed for the price of fuel to stabilize. There are stations all over the southeastern coastline that are using this opportunity to continue price gouging
and to set limitations on fuel purchases to ensure that customers will return and business will remain at a steady rate.
Unfortunately the destruction that was left in the wake of hurricane Ike has left many roads untraveled and inaccessible. This damage not only is costing the states in
repairs, but also within their fuel distributions and outside income brought in through tourism. The uprising fuel costs can definitely be related to Ike. Hurricane
Ike was surely a natural disaster in its own, and most of the southern and southeastern states along the coast felt its wrath the most.
