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The problem isn’t the problem.
The attitude about the problem is the problem.
I stole it from a pirate, but it applies.
We do not have a gas shortage.
We have a shortage of common sense.
There is no gas now.
But there was plenty of gas a week ago.
The news saw an opportunity.
Some media director said, “We can get people to watch us if we say there isn’t enough gas. People will go buy all the gas, and we can report that we’re out. I think we can get a week’s worth of views out of this.”
So they did.
They reported a cyberattack on a “critical” pipeline.
Which may or may not have been true.
And the people who watched the news raced to buy gas.
They bought all the gas.
In other words, they went outside of their normal behaviors and routines and filled all their cars, and big trucks and plastic bottles and plastic bags with gasoline.
It’s called panic buying and it is the only reason the gas disappeared.
