{"id":241690,"date":"2003-03-12T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/03\/gas-station-traffic-jams"},"modified":"2003-03-12T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2003-03-12T17:42:28","slug":"gas-station-traffic-jams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/03\/gas-station-traffic-jams","title":{"rendered":"Gas Station Traffic Jams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gas stations all over New Providence experienced traffic jams yesterday as motorists, alarmed over rumours of rising gas prices and shortages, were frantic to fill their tanks.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Government issued a statement yesterday, asking motorists to remain calm and assuring them that there was no cause for concern.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>It became apparent later in the day that the rumours of a strike were just that. Drivers continued to queue at the gas stations because they were afraid there would be no gas left after the ruch.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Massive traffic jams were reported in the east, west and south, in some cases forcing managers to head to the pumps to help fill the numerous tanks.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Reidar Karlstrud, Shell Bahamas country chairman, said, &#8220;The island is well supplied, we just got a ship in and ESSO just got another ship in. Texaco is also well stocked up because we got products from the same ship, and I think ESSO has another one coming in.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours spark frantic rush to the pumps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}