Canceling UGA game ‘a ridiculous idea,’ governor’s office says

Cancel this weekend’s UGA home football game to save gas?

“The governor is not going to consider a ridiculous idea like this,” said Bert Brantley, spokesman for Gov. Sonny Perdue.

In a radio interview Thursday on the continuing gas shortage in metro Atlanta, Tex Pitfield, chief executive of Saraguay Petroleum in Atlanta, suggested that Perdue cancel Saturday’s University of Georgia-Alabama game in Athens.

The aim, Pitfield said, is to prevent the burning of gasoline that it will take to move more than 100,000 people into Athens and out again.

Brantley responded, “We’re also not going to stop living our lives. People understand there are common-sense things they can do.”

Georgians, he said, would rise to the occasion to help conserve gas.