top | item 27133458 (no title) justwalt | 4 years 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? discuss order hn newest throwaway8581|4 years ago That just moves up demand for the next week into the next two days. It's a spike but not that much. snypher|4 years 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.
throwaway8581|4 years ago That just moves up demand for the next week into the next two days. It's a spike but not that much.
snypher|4 years 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.
throwaway8581|4 years ago
snypher|4 years ago
Call it 10m gallons extra, and I think the pipeline transports 100m gallons a day.