September 12, 2008: Run on gas last night in Paducah
We had a birthday party at Deena’s last night. Somewhere around 7 PM we heard that gas prices were over $4 in Paducah and would probably go to $5 before the weekend.
I was a bit skeptical. Then, when we left the party to head home, we saw cars lined up into the street at almost every gas station. When we got into Lone Oak some stations were out of gas, others had raised prices to $4.59!!!! Gas was $3.50 something at 2 PM yesterday. I don’t ever recall seeing anything like that happen before.
Gas was over $5 in Marion, Illinois and Carbondale!
Some photos I took in Lone Oak…

Lone Oak Gas Prices

Line up in Lone Oak – people getting gas

SuperValu – Lone Oak
