Ok, so I just talked to two gas station managers that I'm pretty cool with, one from Shell, another from Alliance. The Shell manager I talked to this morning, she said that gas could go up to $6 but that she wasn't sure in how long, thought she said not very long. The one from Alliance who is the one I just talked to about an hour ago, said that it's going up to $5 for sure. But here's what he told me that kinda set off my DOOM sirens, he said that by Monday, most gas station will be closing, if not all. I asked him if it was just Alliance, or if it was all companies, and he said it was all. He said they've been losing around $5000 each day the past 2 days and that they can't go on like that.

I asked him if he knew how long they would be closing down for, and he said he didn't know, that no one knew. That they were waiting on the GOV to step in and "regulate" what is happening. Those were his exact words.

When I asked him why we were not hearing about this on the news, he said that they don't tell us anything. They don't even tell him much until it is about to happen. But that he was already told to be prepared to close down by Monday indefinately if the GOV didn't do anything by then.

I am in Souther Cali, in Orange County by the way.

Just an FYI.

By the way, I gotta give thanks to both those managers, because they both waited until I got gas before raising the prices. Shell raised it .15 cents and Alliance raised it .10 cents right after I pumped. They both told me they were about to raise them, but that they would wait until I got my gas.

If you can, I would fill up as soon as possible.