ATLANTA -- We've been asking the tough questions about just how we got into this gas crisis and how our elected officials are working to get us out of it.

CBS 46 has tried to talk to Governor Perdue about the issues, but he's in Europe on a trade mission.

Spokesman Bert Brantley tells CBS 46 the governor is keeping track of everything that's going on with the gas crisis.

At the same time he says the governor is in Europe trying to drum up business opportunities back here in Georgia, but some customers here at a QT would rather see him back home.

There are no long waits as customers fill up at the Quick Trip on Chamblee Tucker Road.

While the gas crisis appears to be easing, drivers like Patricia Walker said the governor needs to address the problems at home instead of shopping for business in Europe.

"I think he should be here," said Walker.

But William Miller said the governor needs to continue on his business mission. He said the gas crisis will correct itself.

"He's doing his job," said Miller.

Brantley tells CBS 46 the trip was months in the making and is needed to bring investment and jobs here to Georgia.

Reporter: "Given the critical nature of the shortage would it have made more sense not to go on this trip or cut it short?"

Brantley: "There are meetings that need to happen immediately."

We also asked the head of the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority why there wasn't a better emergency plan in place to avoid shortages and what is being done to make sure it doesn't happen again.

"We can do all the things that we can do. We can asks Georgians to conserve and they're doing it. We can ask MARTA to run longer hours and they are doing it. We can ask people to carpool to church and they are doing it. But at the end of the day what we can't control is additional products coming out out of the Gulf down there," said Chris Clark with GEFA.

On Wednesday, CBS 46 obtained a copy of the letter the Secretary of Energy wrote to Governor Sonny Perdue in response to the need for federal help during the gas crisis. You can read that response here.