Gas Lines, Any One?

This is what every single gas station that I passed looked like on the way home from work on Friday. What is up with this? Today, all stations in my area are out of Regular petro. Not only that, but the prices increased a dollar! Lucky for me, I didn't need petro at the time. But, seriously, what is the deal? Yes, I know there was a Hurricane in TX but we import our petro, so again, what is the deal? Did I miss some kind of memo that went out on this? I also know that Venezuela made our Diplomat leave- but what are the chances that they will suddenly stop selling us petro? I think those chances are very small. They won't give up their cash cow. So- end the nonsense already!