To give you some sense of the magnitude of the problem, 100 million gallons of fuel daily is nearly one-third of thegallons of fuel used daily by American consumers, businesses and governments, and it’s 45 per cent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a temporary waiver to allow fuel trucks to work much longer hours than normally allowed, so as to reduce disruption to the fuel supply chain. The exemption applies to many southern and northeast states, including Alabama and Arkansas and up to New York and Pennsylvania.
fpcomment Shortage of supply at gas stations was reportedly caused, not by supply declines due a pipeline down (think 'stockpile'), but due to panic buying by consumers from fears of possible shortages CREATED BY MEDIA REPORTS.
fpcomment I think this furthers the argument that we need to ween ourselves off fossil fuels.
fpcomment Yes. And cybersecurity. And energy independence.
fpcomment Until Quebec is directly affected by a shortage there is no hope of even an open discussion on the topic.
fpcomment Most people have no idea how vital oil and gas is to our economy, health and well being. Where would we be without plastics. Yes we need to get better but not return to the dark ages. We would not have modern medicine without oil and gas byproducts. We need to be smarter on this.