On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:03:22 -0500, dpb wrote:

aemeijers wrote:
...
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.
...

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...

Really? I think you need to investigate a little more thoroughly as to
what their needs might be in a situation such as this.