ATLANTA -- The gasoline pinch isn’t just affecting you -- the city of Atlanta said it only has enough gas to get through the next 15 days and it’s asking everyone using a city vehicle to conserve.

“I guess we’re all going to have to start riding horse and buggies,” said Atlanta resident Roger Evans.

That’s Evans’ solution after hearing that Hurricane Ike is the reason the city of Atlanta is having trouble getting its fuel supply delivered. At the end of last week, the city said it had approximately 130,000 gallons, or 13 days, of fuel supply left.

VIDEO: Atlanta City Vehicles Have 15 Days Of Fuel Left

The city is asking all employees with city vehicles, like police and public works, to conserve fuel and reduce unnecessary vehicle idling.

One maintenance assistant manager said the shortage of fuel has him very concerned. “So I’m going on and filling this truck up because it might come down tomorrow, we might not be able to get any gas. So I’ll have enough gas here if I have to go out on an emergency,” he said.

In an effort to conserve, the city closed two fueling stations to make sure it had an adequate reserve.

“I trust that by closing those two stations for a reserve, they’re trying to address that as best they can,” said city councilman H. Lamar Willis.

Willis said the shortage is a major reason why the city should be looking at other options, like bio-diesel.

“We've introduced legislation and I trust that the mayor and her staff will seriously now consider those other options because we can not continue to be held hostage as a city or as a country,” said Willis.

A spokesperson said the city is now getting some fuel shipments but they are very slow. Officials said as of Tuesday, they have about a 15-day fuel supply on hand.

'Remarkable' Georgia Gas Prices Top U.S. Average

Gas prices have surged in Georgia to the highest in the Southeast despite reports that Hurricane Ike inflicted little damage to oil refineries on the Texas coast.

The fuel gauge report released by Triple-A shows the average statewide price for regular unleaded gas is $4.16 a gallon, a 16-cent increase from Sunday.

Some parts of the state were reporting prices high as $4.99 a gallon, while stations throughout the state advertised prices ranging from $3.79 to $3.99.

State officials have asked residents to report gas price gouging to the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs. Between Friday and Monday afternoon, the state received 140 complaints of unfair pricing.

In Macon and Savannah, prices were as high as $4.49, and in Midtown Atlanta, gas stations were charging between $4.29 and $4.59 a gallon.

One station in Columbia County was advertising gas for $9.99 a gallon, but workers told The Augusta Chronicle that they were out of gas and only using the price to deter potential customers from stopping.

The national average for regular is $3.84 a gallon.

Paul Adams, 48, of Loganville, put nearly $90 worth of gas into his Chevy Silverado pickup truck. He said he had passed three or four stations that were out of gas before he found the Chevron station on Moreland Avenue in Atlanta with regular unleaded at $4.39 a gallon. "I was lucky to find one that had gas," he said.

He said it was the most money he had ever spent on gas. "You hope it's only temporary," he said of the price increase. "Hopefully, it'll go back down."

The national average for regular Monday was $3.84 a gallon.

The second highest Southern state was South Carolina with an average of $4.12 for regular unleaded gas. The cheapest price was in Louisiana and Virginia at $3.78 a gallon.

Many Gulf Coast refineries shut down production as a precaution before the storm and may remain shuttered for days, even if they were not damaged, because of power outages. Federal government officials have said Ike destroyed at least 10 oil and gas platforms and damaged pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico.

But that represents only a small portion of the 3,800 production platforms in the Gulf and pales in comparison to the catastrophic damage to energy infrastructure doled out by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita three years ago.

"Lines are back up and running at reduced rates," said Steve Baker, spokesman for Colonial Pipeline in suburban Atlanta, which normally supplies 100 million gallons of petroleum products a day to the South and East Coast. "We've got power and staff at virtually every facility of ours. We're just ready and taking advantage of the supplies we can get on line."

Baker would not disclose the level of flow since the disruption, nor speculate Monday night when conditions would return to normal. He said Louisiana refineries are just now recovering from Gustav, "but Texas refineries are still a ways from giving us new barrels."

Despite the storm, the average gas price in Texas was $3.68 a gallon Monday, according to AAA.

Many Georgia gas stations had wrapped plastic bags around dry pumps Monday after frantic drivers loading up on gas before Ike hit over the weekend tapped supplies.

AAA Auto Club South spokesman Gregg Laskoski said he's never seen a 24-hour increase as steep as Georgia's. He said the high prices reflect Georgia's dependence on oil coming out of Texas refineries.

"It's just remarkable to see this," Laskoski said by phone from his office based in Tampa, Florida.