This could be nothing but watching the confluence of events surrounding these ‘natural’ disasters, as people in Florida are preparing to flee ahead of an impending hurricane, tainted and unusable gasoline turns up at some stations. Amazing coincidence?
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Contaminated how? With what? Where are the consumer witnesses? Sometimes adding octane booster fixes the problem. Removing some or all of the bad fuel and filling up with good fuel to dilute the bad gas also works.
Supposedly diesel was “accidentally” mixed in with regular gas at some refinery. Oops.
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I think Citgo is a Venezuelan owned company…ummmm.
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Yeah, not sure at what point in the supply chain it was supposed to have happened. I’d imagine there’s several points where an “accident” like this could occur.
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Yes, confluence of events. Weather-wise, unprecedented “jet stream” flows are solidifying to provide a channel for Hurricane Idalia follow. This is no different than the new upper tropospheric flows that facilitated destruction in So Cal (Hilary) and Lahaina (high pressure system northwest of Hawaii).
NOAA Band-08 has been so instructive for me. Blue-yellow-orange areas are dry and hot and appear to steer all air masses below, be they atmosheric rivers, high and low pressure rotations, etc.
I believe the accuracy of Weather Channel storm tracks is based more on foreknowledge than of learned patterns from advanced computing.
Florida, Georgia and all land masses surrounding Idalia’s track will likely suffer an intense diluge. The fuel issue is indeed very, very suspicious.
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