Ike and price of gas.

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Hurricane Ike is already affecting us here in South Carolina. The price of gas has jumped up to $5.23 or more a gallon in parts of the state. Here in my town it is still $3.56 or so at most pumps but just across the river the satiation have long lines as people try to fill up before the gas runs out. At some stations they ore only aloud to get 8 gallons. I sent my grandson out with his sister's car to fill up and he already had his car full. This is going on just across town from me. The stations here haven't started to raise their prices yet. Has Ike affected the gas prices where you are yet? http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=66097 The average U.S. retail price for regular gasoline was at $3.671 Thursday, according to the Oil Price Information Service, auto club AAA and Wright Express. Hurricane Ike, following last week's Hurricane Gustav, was expected to blow ashore early Saturday somewhere between Corpus Christi and Houston. Some forecasters predict it will strengthen from a Category 2 storm, with winds near 100 mph, to a Category 4. Ike ripped through Cuba and killed at least 80 people in the Caribbean. And it's affect on America's fuel production is largely to blame for the increases we're seeing. Texas is home to 26 refineries that account for one-fourth of U.S. refining capacity. Most are clustered along the Gulf Coast near such cities as Houston, Port Arthur and Corpus Christi. Exxon Mobil Corp.'s plant in Baytown, outside Houston, is the nation's largest refinery.