gas so lean

I didn’t think much of it when I saw the headline ‘Pumps go dry at some gas stations…‘ posted on the Drudge Report. Little did I know it was on the electronic edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
I left for Bethesda, MD the same day and to my consternation passed by gas station after gas station, some with signs posted on each pump which read ‘NO GAS,’ and one with its pumps blocked in by a tow truck.
I thought it was the seventies, and I wondered if we’d actually make it to Bethesda.
The last station before I-476 (the Blue Route) didn’t seem affected, so we gassed up and were on our way. On the return trip last night, the pumps at the Maryland House rest area were out of everything but regular, which was fine by me. But when I saw those little signs again I thought we were out of luck.
COLD FUSION NOW!