WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Top Stories: "Battle for gas in Mississippi reminds writer of Mad Max films
05:42 AM CDT on Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Associated Press
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- It's like something out of the movie 'The Road Warrior.'
In the 1982 Mel Gibson film, mohawked gangs with guns roamed a post-apocalyptic world battling for oil.
Mel Gibson's leather-clad Mad Max character helps innocent settlers fight brutes who will do anything for the last precious commodity.
Things haven't gotten that bad on the northern Gulf coast, but people are going to incredible lengths for a gallon of gas.
Tanker trucks have police escorts, and it's nothing to see a line of cars following one down the road waiting for it to pull into a station. Gas lines form shortly after six a-m, when the curfew is lifted, and last until it begins at six p-m. And people are protecting their gas like gold once they get it."
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