A Hurricane-Like Gasoline Supply Pinch Faces Holiday Drivers
- Retailers seeing delivery headaches weeks after pipeline hack
- Midwest gasoline stockpiles haven’t been this thin since 1992
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Gasoline demand in the world’s largest economy is heading into one of its traditional peak seasons with some of the lowest stockpiles in almost three decades.
That’s setting the stage for a supply squeeze usually only seen when a hurricane knocks out oil refineries in Texas and Louisiana, according to one major fuel distributor.