Locals Remember Gas Shortage Crisis Of 2008

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Midstate drivers won’t forget the last two weeks of September 2008. A severe gas shortage left drivers waiting in line for hours just to fill their tanks.

Viewers picked the gas shortage as the third biggest local story of the year.


NewsChannel 5’s Phil Jones took a look back at long lines, hot tempers and high prices.

In September 2008, numbers added up on the pumps and so did the questions.

Sky5 HD captured lines of cars waiting to get gas that stretched out of parking lots onto roadways over the last two weeks of September.

“I ran out of gas sitting here waiting to get gas,”

On the ground, it looked like the scenes many remember from the gas shortages of the 1970s. People pushing cars with bone dry tanks to the gas pumps. Pumps had plastic bags over them, and simple signs that said it all.

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