ATLANTA -- Commuters heading home from work or school better have gas in the tank when they head out.

Many of the gas stations they pass will have little or no gas. If they do stumble across a station that's still pumping any grade of fuel there's sure to be long lines of drivers waiting to fill up.

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John Walter couldn't find any gas Sunday and thought Monday would be better. He was wrong.

"I've been trying to get gas in East Cobb at Shallowford and Johnsons Ferry and everything out there is shut down. And I've been in this line for about 30 minutes," said Walter. "Yeah, I'm going to need a slight push." And he did. Channel 2's Ross Cavitt had to help push Walter's truck up to the pump.

By mid-afternoon Monday, the line had grown to an hour-and-a-half at the Shell station on Johnson Ferry Road. The Shell was an oasis of gas in a sea of dry pumps.

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For most, it was not panic-buying but real panic.

"Oh my gosh, I can't believe this," said one consumer. "I am down to fumes right now.

"Oh, I'm really upset about it," said consumer Kathy Sinsheimer. "I think that it's a failure from the top and I think that this is just an indication of everything gone wrong."

"I've been here for over an hour and this is the second station I've been to," said another driver.

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At Johnson Ferry and Roswell Roads, the nexis of East Cobb County, all three stations were shut down. When a tanker pulled in to a QuikTrip down the street, it was like flies swarming to honey and within moments there was a line.

Some planned to take their newly-filled cars and park them.

"Go home and rest. This was a job just to get gas," said Don Clayton.

According to AAA, the latest average price for regular unleaded gas is $4.01 a gallon in metro Atlanta.

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Georgia’s HERO units are on the lookout for drivers who have run out of gas. Officials told Channel 2 the units are seeing more and more drivers stranded because of gas shortages and high prices.

Halfway through his day, Bennie Conley has already delivered gas to three stranded motorists.

Kayla Vinson is his fourth.

“I just knew I was going to make it home because I’m almost there. I’m like 10 minutes away, but as I was coming up the ramp I could feel my car cutting off. I was like, ‘No, please!’” said Vinson.

She ran out of gas after spending an hour driving around looking for an open station.

“I went looking for gas earlier during lunch but the lines were so long so I decided to wait. I guess it was a bad choice because once I got to the gas stations, lines were even longer and most gas stations they don’t even have gas,” said Vinson.

With high gas prices all summer, Georgia Highway Emergency Response Operators, or HEROs, have been busy with gas calls. They’ve been giving away thousands of gallons a month. But Monday, those calls doubled for Conley.

“Today I’ve spent $30 already, just trying to keep that can full,” said Conley.

Now, it isn’t how much the gas costs but how little of it is available.

HERO units must also be extra careful that they don’t run low on gas. The crews said it is taking longer than normal to refill their tanks.