dpb wrote:
aemeijers wrote:
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more likely a local good-old-boy arrangement between the whoever runs
the local emergency services and the station owners. Note that most
scenarios that take out power also throw a lot of water around- do you
really want to trust peoples lives to fuel that may have picked up a
lot of water in it? Unless your draft pump has a water separator on
it, pulling fuel back out the fill hole is risky. Safer to power up
the station with a generator, and use the pump and filter system that
is there.
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And, FEMA, Red Cross, etc., vehicles are diesel, not gasoline, anyway,
for the most part so the commercial gas supplies don't help a whole lot...

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I do happen to know that FEMA has an arrangement in place to use DoD
stocks and supplies when needed, including their CONUS fuel contracts
and storage farms. MREs and cots aren't the only olive-drab things they
have using in the storm areas.

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aem sends...