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Re: Instant urban legend



I saw the same thing here in St. Louis. At first, I didn't know what was
going on. I had been paying attention to the news about the Trade Center
virtually all day, but this didn't make sense. When I was driving home,
three gas stations had people lined up for two blocks in either direction to
buy gas. The prices were only around $1.47 or so. It wasn't til I got home
that I found out why. What has the price of gas got to do with the disaster?
The officials in Washington were hinting on the news that they have some
idea of who did it, but they didn't say who for sure, so I can't understand
that rationally.

Barbara M. Pope, M.L.S.
Reference Librarian
O.J. Cloughly Alumni Library
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
4588 Parkview Place
St. Louis, MO 63110
Voice: +1 314-367-8700, ext. 1001
Fax:    +1 314-367-2784
Email:  bpope@mail.stlcop.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: David Clark [mailto:david.clark@NARA.GOV]
Sent: 12 September, 2001 10:02 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Instant urban legend


Here in the Kansas City area, the same gas panic was occurring.  There were
gas stations here that were charging between $4 and $6 a gallon.  After the
local TV stations began airing stories during the news, the prices returned
to around $1.55 a gallon. Apparently, the attorney general in both Kansas
and Missouri are going to begin investigating price gouging.

David Clark
Truman Presidential Museum and Library

>>> "STEVEN P. FISHER" <sfisher@DU.EDU> 09/12/01 09:52AM >>>
 There is nothing comical about what happened yesterday, but a bizarre
offshoot began in the Denver area last night. Suddenly long lines appeared
at gas stations, as rumors began to circulate that gas would cost $5 a
gallon by week's end. It seems that as people drove by gas stations and
as they saw lines they would panic and get in line themselves. I heard on
NPR that this also happened in Minneapolis. People waiting in line for
hours and some stations running dry. The oil companies and AAA are
insisting that there is absolutely no truth to the rumors of increased
gas prices. I am reminded of the movie "1941" where the citizens of
Southern California react to an imagined Japanese invasion.

Steve in Denver

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