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When people hoard shortages happen. Yeah - how insightful. Next they will dramatically intone that water is wet. This will only be an issue if the pipeline s

by EricE 5y ago

When people hoard shortages happen. Yeah - how insightful. Next they will dramatically intone that water is wet. This will only be an issue if the pipeline stays down for an extended period of time. And with everyone still mostly working from home/social distancing this is probably the best time for something like this to happen. Hopefully it will be a wake up call to all companies that backups and disaster recovery plans only work if they are routinely tested and maintained. Any company forced to pay for ransomware (and good luck if they actually deliver anything past payment - ha!) needs to have its executive management held to account. Anyone can get ransomwhere these days - it should be nothing more than a temporary inconvenience if a company has an integrated approach to it's operations - and that's across all business areas, not just IT. Disaster recovery is NOT solely an IT problem.

throwaway8581 5y ago
How much excess gasoline storage capacity do you think people have? I would bet that the vast majority of people nothing more than their car's tank, and a small minority additionally have a handheld one or two gallon red canister. "Hoarding" is not enough to explain this.
- ja27 5y ago
  Apparently as many buckets, totes, or even plastic bags as they can fit in the trunk :( Here in Florida, there's always a run on gas as tropical storms approach. Just everyone making sure they have a full tank at the same time is a big strain on the supply but there are a lot of people with generators and 5-10 five gallon cans.
- justwalt 5y ago
  If we assume that the average gas tank is half full, and then a large number of people decide to top off their tanks, that could be a huge amount of fuel, right?
  - throwaway8581 5y ago
    That just moves up demand for the next week into the next two days. It's a spike but not that much.
  - snypher 5y ago
    In 2016 SC had 1.8million vehicles, maybe 75% of them pump an extra half tank (~~8 gallons?) Call it 10m gallons extra, and I think the pipeline transports 100m gallons a day.

by EricE 5y ago

throwaway8581 5y ago

How much excess gasoline storage capacity do you think people have? I would bet that the vast majority of people nothing more than their car's tank, and a small minority additionally have a handheld one or two gallon red canister. "Hoarding" is not enough to explain this.

ja27 5y ago
Apparently as many buckets, totes, or even plastic bags as they can fit in the trunk :( Here in Florida, there's always a run on gas as tropical storms approach. Just everyone making sure they have a full tank at the same time is a big strain on the supply but there are a lot of people with generators and 5-10 five gallon cans.
justwalt 5y ago
If we assume that the average gas tank is half full, and then a large number of people decide to top off their tanks, that could be a huge amount of fuel, right?
- throwaway8581 5y ago
  That just moves up demand for the next week into the next two days. It's a spike but not that much.
- snypher 5y ago
  In 2016 SC had 1.8million vehicles, maybe 75% of them pump an extra half tank (~~8 gallons?) Call it 10m gallons extra, and I think the pipeline transports 100m gallons a day.