Governor Sonny Perdue is telling Georgia drivers to not panic, and take only necessary trips in order to conserve gasoline supply in the state. Perdue made his comments Wednesday morning, a day after federal officials relaxed restrictions on fuel blends gas stations can accept. 45 Georgia counties are covered by the waiver. In many parts of metro Atlanta, drivers have waited up to an hour to fill-up.
Perdue says his office is on the phone every morning with distributors, and says the state is on the backside of the shortage:
Concerning the charge leveled by state Democrats that he dragged on addressing the gas shortage, Perdue responded:
Perdue says his office is on the phone every morning with distributors, and says the state is on the backside of the shortage:
"We think we’ve peaked as far as the lack of production capacity and these pipelines are re-filling...these distribution points are filling back up. And hopefully that will be experienced by the customer very, very soon."Perdue says that timetable should be four to five days for improvement. However, if the situation does not improve fast enough, Perdue says he might consider options like a state holiday to preserve supply.
Concerning the charge leveled by state Democrats that he dragged on addressing the gas shortage, Perdue responded:
"That’s what the opposing party always says is you didn’t do what you should have done fast enough, soon enough. That’s what a being a Democrat is all about is trying to tell those others in government how to run government while they had it for 135 years."
