gas shortage
Empty pump problem
A gas shortage is an insufficient supply of gasoline or natural gas to meet demand.
Shortages may result from supply disruptions, refinery problems, or distribution failures, often causing long lines at filling stations and price spikes: The gas shortage had people waiting hours to fill up.
The 1970s oil crises made the term familiar to Americans.
- fuelEnergy source material
- gas stationRetail fuel vendor
- fill upOccupy entirely
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- pumpFluid-moving machine
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- shortages
- depletiondecline, deficit, exhaustion, depletion, overconsumption
- Energy Crisisfuel crisis, power outage, rolling blackout, oil embargo, energy rationing
- fuel problemsfuel leak, fuel pump failure, clogged filter, wrong fuel, empty tank
- oil industrypetroleum, oil fields, oil well, oil rig, oil production
- Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter, peanut farmer, Camp David Accords, Iran hostage crisis, presidency
shortage, gases, gaseous, gassy, gasify, gasification, short, shorter, shortest