Gas shortages?

This morning, the mighty HODAR sent me a text saying the gas shortage in his area (a major NC metro area) is still pretty nasty. He made reference to people getting "violent" and he's seeing abandoned cars - presumably out of gas.

My "local" news is out of Nashville (though I don't even live in TN) and they still report on gas stations running out of gas, but I'm not seeing any of this on CNN...

It seems like most of the country isn't having this problem and/or the media is ignoring it.

This excites the "bring on the apocalypse"part of my brain...