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Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by moate on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:43AM (#28221626)
Just walk me through this: Did the gas stations all catch Covid and die?

What is the correlation between pandemic related gas shortages and a need for more fuel pumps (vs. more of the fuel to be delivered to the pumps because of pandemic related supply chain issues)?

Also, where are these constant waiting lines currently happening? I'm personally in NJ, an extremely densely populated state, and haven't seen anything other than the normal rush hour "4 pumps, 6 cars" type of lines. The larger filling stations (6+ pumps) almost never have more cars than pumps at any time I've driven past.

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Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by bobthepanda on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:14PM (#28224289)
I believe they're talking about the Colonial pipeline hack, where there were indeed waiting lines for gas in the South, but that was because of lack of delivery of gas, not lack of gas stations. A gas station is no use if it can't get gas.
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