Thread by @Maga4Justice

Let me tell you what’s going on about the “gas shortages.”

This is what I do for a living, maybe I can break it down a bit for you all.

Obviously we have a hacked pipeline that is down, I will give you a quick summary of what that means and what the logistics of it mean.

These pipelines supply hundreds of different terminals. Each city has specific terminals that their gas ⛽️ is pulled from. Many are just miles from your house, sometimes they pull from 1-2 hours from your house because the cost is cheaper.

Because the pipeline is shut down the local terminals are running out of gas. So instead of pulling gas from local areas the are now having to go way outside your area 3,4,5 bourse each way to fill just one tanker with gas.

One tanker only carries 7-8 thousand gallons of fuel.

7-8 thousand gallons is only kind of fuel for one gas station.

So the problem is one truck can only make 2 deliveries a day, instead of 8-15 depending on your area.

There are not enough trucks or drivers to deliver to everyone everyday. It’s simply logistics.

By the time the are able to get back to your station you have run out of fuel. Most likely stations are not ordering every kind of gas. They are getting what they can in the “cheap stuff.”

So theoretically we don’t have an actual National gas shortage. Obviously we have gas.

But logistics are that local terminals are out.This is causing shortages because we do not have enough trucks or qualified drivers to get to all stations in a timely manor.

Drivers have to have a special license because gas trucks are a National security issue. A bomb on wheels

It’s really as simple as that. They are driving hours at a time to get 1 station 1 load. People panic buying are causing stations to run out in hours instead of a few days. Be nice to fuel truck drivers. They are literally not sleeping right now to get you gas.

Oh. More good news. When you have to deliver gas that you are hauling for hours, you have to pay that company, driver and their fuel cost too. So that gets tacked on To each gallon of gas. So their will be sharp increase, no getting around it.

This was my example above. If stations are stressed In supply because they only get 1 load every 2-3 days, they are going to take that one load and buy the “cheap” gas.

It’s not that we are out of the other two, it’s mixed at the terminal. We opt for the cheaper gas for you.