It seems after a brief spike, gas prices in New Orleans only went up to national average (so far)?!

http://www.neworleansgasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

(add the national average to the chart manually - it seems I can't link to the chart with the average included).

No shortages and prices appear to be dropping in New Orleans proper.

Elsewhere, slowly getting caught up in blackout areas as power comes back on generator use declines.

Lake Charles evacuated for Gustav and seems likely to need to evac again.

Alan