Originally posted by mchunter67
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I heard gas stations are running out of gas
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You guys can't imagine what is going on behind the scenes to make sure stations have gasoline. You will hear more about it soon. Just know that people are working around the clock to get gas and diesel refined, to the terminals, and to the gas stations. EPA has stepped up and is providing wavers on many of their regulations to make sure any gas and diesel that can get here, will get here. That being said, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know the system will be stressed to the max for the next few weeks. Have faith that big oil and the government want you to have the gas you need.
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From my experience with Katrina, gas will be a problem for about a week, at least that was our situation. no gas for a week or so, then a little gas with quotas. They lifted the ban on off-road diesel in road trucks for about a year here. It was made worse by people trying to get all the gas they could, whenever they could, even if they really didn't need it. Best advice I can give is don't drive around and don't drive all over looking for gas. If you can sit tight till next week, it will get better. Good luck and God BlessLast edited by QDM4fun; 08-29-2017, 08:54 PM.
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Filled up with diesel at Bucees this morning in Fort Worth.
Hopefully I can find enough to get home from the lease this weekend. Worst case I have to stay a few more days, dangit.Last edited by Acameron52; 08-30-2017, 12:09 PM.
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There are hundreds of ships waiting to unload crude oil but they can't because the Coast Guard has to verify the channels are clear from them.
The refineries have lots of reserves and are nowhere near out of fuel but once shut down it takes a while to bring the plant back up.
The fuel racks where the fuel goes to be loaded into tanker trucks, some were damaged by the storm and/or have no electricity.
Then to even further complicate things some racks have no ethanol to blend with the gasoline so you can run the gas in your vehicles.
It will get better faster than we think.
Corpus is loading trucks so Victoria won't be far behind.
Going to be a while before the Houston refineries are doing anything.
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