Gasoline demand in the world’s largest economy is heading into one of its traditional peak seasons with some of the lowest stockpiles in almost three decades.
Continued good news. Since this is a weekly average, the Biden/CDC masking kerfuffle will not show up for awhile, if indeed it does show up. (As promised, I killed the Midwest map, now that Michigan has fallen back into the pack, and replaced it with a World map, below.)
Continued good news. (This chart may seem redundant but I’m trying to think through where the next wave, if God forbid there is a next wave, would show up. Florida and Texas are both entrepots to Latin America, and New York and California to Europe and Asia, respectively. (Now that I think of it, a map of counties near resort towns would be helpful, too; the historical correlation between skiing and superspreading is pretty clear, in Europe and the US. Maybe I can dig one up.)
by Bloomberg
|Monday, May 17, 2021
Pilot Corp. was offering $5,000 hiring bonuses for tanker drivers to supply its stores and said it could hire 200 people before summer.
(Bloomberg) Drivers encountering fuel shortages in parts of the U.S. East and South may find it takes weeks before supply levels return to normal.
Now that Colonial Pipeline Co. has resumed deliveries that were halted for nearly a week by a cyberattack, the industry is facing a new logistics problem on top of the lack of available fuel: not enough truck drivers to transport gasoline and diesel from distribution hubs to retail outlets.
Gasoline pinch to grind on for weeks with truck shortage
Jill R. Shah
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Drivers encountering fuel shortages in parts of the East and South may find it takes weeks before supply levels return to normal.
Now that Colonial Pipeline Co. has resumed deliveries that were halted for nearly a week by a cyberattack, the industry is facing a new logistics problem on top of the lack of available fuel: not enough truck drivers to transport gasoline and diesel from distribution hubs to retail outlets.
As of Friday morning, about 87% of fuel stations in Washington, D.C., were out of gasoline, 42% in Maryland and 30% in Florida, according to retail-tracker GasBuddy. While outages dipped slightly in North Carolina and South Carolina, more than half of each state s stations are still without gasoline.