Getting gasoline into Florida post-Milton
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🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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More than 400,000 electricity customers are out of power across Florida this morning. After the storm, ports, transfer terminals and roads were closed, and that’s disrupted the supply of critical products, including gasoline. We’ll get into it. Then, you may be getting an inundation of fundraising texts and emails from the Trump-Vance or Harris-Walz. But do the campaigns really need your money at this point? And later, we’ll learn about hotel-to-housing conversions.
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| 0:00.0 | Getting Gas into the mess that is Florida. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm David Brancaccio. It is the Monday after Hurricane Milton slammed across Florida's |
| 0:09.8 | midsection. More than 400,000 electricity customers are still without power this |
| 0:14.5 | morning. A critical supply issue amid the devastation, getting gasoline out to where |
| 0:19.1 | drivers can get it. Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman has that. Scott Long sheltered in place in his solid brick |
| 0:26.3 | home near downtown Sarasota. Before the hurricane hit, he saw... |
| 0:30.4 | A lot of people running around trying to get gas. I did gas up before the storm. |
| 0:35.0 | Everyone was topping off their tanks and filling their generators. Florida economist Sean |
| 0:40.2 | Snaeth says that led to a big surge of demand. |
| 0:44.3 | Some of the gas stations did run out of gas. |
| 0:47.0 | After the storm, ports, transfer terminals, and roads |
| 0:50.0 | were closed so tanker trucks couldn't make deliveries. |
| 0:53.2 | But the infrastructure has recovered quickly, |
| 0:55.8 | says Tom Closa at the Oil Price Information Service |
| 0:59.0 | in Fort Myers. |
| 1:00.2 | We have seen power restored at the port of Tampa. |
| 1:04.0 | Nearly half the state's gas comes through there. |
| 1:07.0 | Terminal now are dispatching trucks that take about 8,000 gallons each to stations. |
| 1:12.0 | Sean Snaith predicts 85% of them. 8,000 gallons each, to stations. |
| 1:12.8 | Sean Snath predicts 85% of them will have gas by today |
| 1:16.9 | and be open as long as the electricity's on, |
| 1:20.1 | because you can't pump gas without power. |
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