You could use a little relief as you drive around looking for gas stations with reasonable prices and no lines. Unfortunately, you won't find it here.
Roughly 150 miles from the gas-pipeline rupture in Alabama, Atlantans have watched the numbers spinning upward on gas-station price displays all over town. Indeed, the only number that hasn't gone up is the little "9" at the end of each price -- as in $2.39-9 -- because, well, it's already as high as it can ever be.
But the station closest to the leak in little Helena, Ala., was selling gas Monday evening at $1.99 a gallon. No lines. No kidding.
Indeed, the area where all these gas pains began seems to be suffering little impact -- other than the environmental catastrophe of dumping more than 300,000 gallons of gasoline into and onto the earth, so there's that. Otherwise, at least for the moment, it's Georgia consumers who get to pay because a pipe broke in Alabama.
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