I should rephrase that, that's the US gas inventory, not a separate stockpile. The US stockpiles crude, but not refined products.I thought the stockpile was strictly oil? Interesting if it also includes gas - but can't gas go bad overtime from not being used?
So sick of seeing all these Captain hindsight experts whining about the chemical company not preparing for such a thing. Who the fuck can prepare for something like this? Must be nice sitting on your fat ass safe in your house, judging something that would have been just fine for the recorded severe weather in the area.
I should rephrase that, that's the US gas inventory, not a separate stockpile. The US stockpiles crude, but not refined products.
Anyhow, the point is that there's hundreds of millions of barrels of gas around the country right now, while demand is only slightly outpacing current refining capacity (by about 2M barrels/day). So nationally there is more than enough inventory to absorb the hit with little trouble.
As for gas going bad, since this is commercial inventory, it is constantly cycled through.
Doubtful that the store owners aren't going to pocket the up charge.To be fair, some of the price jumps may have been done precisely to discourage people hoarding it. You're far less likely to buy up 20 barrels-full for your Canyonaro 9000 if it jumped 20% overnight. This keeps it in the station for people that actually need it, in a time when a) it's needed more than ever, and b) resupplies may be very limited due to inaccessibility of roads, and refineries going dark.
After Sandy, my parents were without power for nearly 14 days on LI. Because my dad requires a bi-pap and oxygen concentrator at night, they stayed a few nights with my uncle and a few nights with my grandfather, both of who had power or power restored more quickly. Since that incident, they've had a natural gas generator installed.When Sandy hit New Jersey, we lost AC Power due to about 3 power lines coming down from the high wind. Needless to say it took forever to get a crew up there to put the wires back up. Landline telephone and DSL internet stayed up, but Cablevision TV service was down. We did have a generator to run essentials like furnace, refrigerator and some lights and few outlets. So we were able to keep up by computer. Biggest issue was finding a gas station that had both Gas and Electric in order to pump it. We would run the generator all day until about 9PM or so. It used about 4 - 5 gals per day. My next door neighbor did not have a generator, but his house now has a natural gas powered Generac installed.
only takes a handful of morons on the nightly news to make a mountain out of a molehill...
saw an old guy in a truck filling up five 55-gallon barrels in his bed today. ridiculous
Makes no difference if I have already booked as the airlines will just resell my ticketed seats to someone else and have me step off the plane
They'll boot him to make more $$ on his seat.
"So sorry, Sir, we overbooked the flight." I have no doubt that you could get booted so the airline makes more $$.never heard of this being done.
You completely missed the story with that United passenger earlier this year?never heard of this being done.
That was a bit different, right? Didn't he agree to get off and then changed him mind?You completely missed the story with that United passenger earlier this year?
Irony: Someone burning through ~350gal of diesel a week complaining about the fuel usage of others.It seems like every other truck here in DFW has extra gas cans in the back, idiots. I hope they get stolen. For the first time in the five years I have owned it I am glad that I have a diesel, many stations out of gas still have diesel available and I do enough driving for work that I have to fill up my F250 almost every day.
I just meant in the aspect of "here's a really huge news story where the airline said we need people off the plane and we will give them money", when he's saying he's never heard of that being done.That was a bit different, right? Didn't he agree to get off and then changed him mind?
Wow, that could be 300-600+ miles/day.Irony: Someone burning through ~350gal of diesel a week complaining about the fuel usage of others.
Depends on efficiency, if he's hauling around 13000lbs (max rated towing capacity) of pillows, it'll probably get garbage MPG.Wow, that could be 300-600+ miles/day.
500mi/day would be 150,000/year.
I guess it could mean he uses 51% of his fuel/day and couldn't make it through the next day, but that's still a ton of time spent at gas stations.
remember that thing we learned some years ago about building super dangerous factories, like uh, nuclear power plants near constant, guaranteed, natural disaster zones like tsunamis and floods?
oh yeah, that thing. What's the deal with humans not learning things?
Irony: Someone burning through ~350gal of diesel a week complaining about the fuel usage of others.
Wow, that could be 300-600+ miles/day.
500mi/day would be 150,000/year.
I guess it could mean he uses 51% of his fuel/day and couldn't make it through the next day, but that's still a ton of time spent at gas stations.
Depends on efficiency, if he's hauling around 13000lbs (max rated towing capacity) of pillows, it'll probably get garbage MPG.
When Sandy hit New Jersey, we lost AC Power due to about 3 power lines coming down from the high wind. Needless to say it took forever to get a crew up there to put the wires back up. Landline telephone and DSL internet stayed up, but Cablevision TV service was down. We did have a generator to run essentials like furnace, refrigerator and some lights and few outlets. So we were able to keep up by computer. Biggest issue was finding a gas station that had both Gas and Electric in order to pump it. We would run the generator all day until about 9PM or so. It used about 4 - 5 gals per day. My next door neighbor did not have a generator, but his house now has a natural gas powered Generac installed.