Quote Originally Posted by jim View Post
There is only so much fuel you can set aside, especially in any place as congested as the east coast. Here it is NO bulk storage of fuel what so ever. Sure 20-30 gals in 5 gal cans is nothing (to us) What is plan B once fuel delivery has ceased, your option for siphoning gas is in the crapper due to flooding / contaminated fuel??
There are plenty of alternative ways of reducing the amount of fuel one would need. Also, probably a lot of them didn't even have the containers for the fuel on hand. They didn't need to store all that fuel, but having the ability to do so would have been smart.

I would imagine a lot of this fuel is going to feed generators. One could reduce the items that need a generator, no TVs and other nonessential items. Battery powered radio work for news. Have a store of food that doesn't require refrigeration, and cook with propane. They could eat all the stuff that would go bad while the had fuel and rely on the other stuff later.



What am I saying, this is just basic preppier talk. All those people standing in line are dump asses.