Supplies are down, tempers are up, and gas station lines come back
Pulling into a service station is beginning to seem like entering a combat zone. With more and more of the nation's 171,000 gas stations closing on weekends, shortening hours during the week, and cutting sales to $5 per customer to stretch supplies, frazzled and angry drivers are starting to boil over.
In Las Vegas, only ten of the city's more than 200 stations were open a week ago Sunday when scuffles and fistfights broke out at several of them as fuming vacationers waited for gasoline in lines that sometimes stretched for...
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