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Re:The Cost of Gasoline by tonyarkles on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:31PM (#36473757)
Heh, I did some work on a pretty cool tank monitoring hardware/software solution with a major fuel supplier here about a decade ago. They have facilities with about a dozen large vertical 40-80,000L above-ground fuel tanks for agricultural use. One of the features I was working on was leak detection, and we got the sensors and statistical analysis down to the point where, when testing with water, I could accurately detect the rate of evaporation from a smaller indoor tank.

Anyway, we’re in an area that doesn’t have a whole lot of “acts of God” kind of destruction; no hurricanes or earthquakes, high winds occasionally but tornados are quite rare, etc. They reported to me that the number one cause of leaks on their above-ground tanks was bullet holes. Just… people randomly shooting at the tank farms. They don’t catch fire when this happens generally, they just spill out from the hole until someone catches it and transfers all of the fuel out of the tank.

Re:The Cost of Gasoline by joker_minmax on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:18PM (#36474549)
>Anyway, we’re in an area that doesn’t have a whole lot of “acts of God” kind of destruction

Are you in the US? And if so... mind sharing your vague region? I'd love to know where to actually avoid tornadoes.

Re:The Cost of Gasoline by ericpauley on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:13PM (#36474930)
One example: much of Pennsylvania has none of these.
Re:The Cost of Gasoline by joker_minmax on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:39PM (#36486826)
Philly doesn't count as a natural disaster?
Re:The Cost of Gasoline by tonyarkles on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:04AM (#36478621)
Saskatchewan in Western Canada. Just north of North Dakota and Montana. What we do get is wild amounts of cold and snow some years, but those don't generally harm fuel tanks a whole lot :).
Re:The Cost of Gasoline by tezgon on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:08AM (#36480618)
Move to the Southwest. I moved to northern New Mexico and I love it. Nobody to bother me and miles of space for whatever I need to do. Gets hot though.