May I do my part to encourage "Panic"? I live in Western North Carolina and have not been able to obtain premimum fuel for my car for 22 days. The refining and distribution infrastructures are indeed fragile. One hopes that alternative energy advocates have recognized that it is desirable to have the energy produced locally.

Yep, we have an update coming on this here in a couple of hours. We have reports from NC, TN, and FL about some shortages, but haven't been able to figure out the scope of the shortages and their rate of increase yet.