Students may be scrambling to find fuel, but the University has yet to be hit hard by gas shortages rippling through the Southeast.

“So far we’ve been able to get [gas],” said Ron Hamlin, Campus Transit manager, in a phone interview Wednesday. “But ever since Hurricane Ike, we’ve been getting only half as much as we order.”

If the situation does not improve soon, Campus Transit has back-up plans already set, such as buses running for only part of the day and fueling less frequently, Hamlin said.

But Hamlin said he does not anticipate anything bad happening with the fuel situation.

University Police have “plenty of fuel,” despite shortages in the area, said University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson in a phone interview Wednesday.

They receive their gasoline from the Physical Plant.

“Based on the precautions [the University] has taken … There should be enough for us.”

“The situation might effect game day,” Williamson said. “If people are traveling great distances, then they might want to think about that since we are experiencing shortages.”

Williamson said police are doing trying to cut back on fuel consumption. Many are leaving their patrol cars parked and opting to walk, he said.

But students who refuel are feeling shortages at the pump.

“I told my friend to get gas and he drove around trying to get it,” said Stuart Tench, a sophomore from Habersham, said Wednesday. “He couldn’t get any.”

The Athens Shell gas station at 2290 Barnett Shoals Rd. has mid-grade and premium gas, but the cashier was not sure when the station would receive regular fuel.

A cashier at the BP station on Alps Road said he received 3,000 gallons of regular gasoline Wednesday to last 24 hours.

But a cashier at the RaceTrac on Atlanta Highway said the regular gas would only last about three hours.

Megan Ramsey, a cashier at Kangaroo Express on Lumpkin Street, said the station would “hopefully receive some [gas] sometime” Wednesday.