Florida DOT seeks solutions to fuel shortages during evacuations

Equipment World's Better Roads ^ | October 31, 2017 | Don McLoud

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING.

[blueunicorn6]

Jerrycans.

[aimhigh]

After all these decades, it’s a good question to be asked.

[vooch]

let the free market reign; allow the price to rise and you’ll see plenty of fuel

the free market

[Army Air Corps]

I have been developing a car that runs on panic. I’ll need a few million in federal grants to complete my research.

[rigelkentaurus]

Let fuel distributors set up temporary fuel stations along evacuation routes - park a tanker with a car dispenser with police protection present. Have many of these set up.

[CGASMIA68]

Wrong.
When all lanes are N bound there is no way for the fuel trucks to get to the stations.
Thats the problem not supply and demand

[Romulus]

This is why mass evacuation is a bad policy.

[treetopsandroofs]

VERY nice.

[treetopsandroofs]

Didn’t they CLOSE OFF the south-bound lanes because of this and then people screamed at the traffic jams?

[Moonman62]

It’s probably best that most people don’t evacuate. More people get hurt preparing for or avoiding storms than get hurt by them.

[lacrew]

I wonder if a few extra pipelines would be helpful.

[MeganC]

Allow free market pricing to prevail during disasters and there’ll be adequate fuel available.

But imposing price controls is a proven way to cause supplies to dry up.

[Obadiah]

What the heck, dude? Now we can’t spend billions of dollars in research grants and federal tax funding to resolve the issue over the next two decades. Wow, you suck.

/s

[SkyDancer]

I wonder what the ratio of deaths were between those that evacuated vs those that remained in place; there were some deaths due to accidents while evacuating.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “Let fuel distributors set up temporary fuel stations along evacuation routes...” <<

You still have to fill up the temp equipment Einstein!
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[AppyPappy]

People have enough time to stock. This is not a government problem.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

EEEEK!!! EEEEEVIL PIPELINES!!!

[keving]

What about required generators at every gas station from 2005?