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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
Most petroleum products are transported by pipeline to distribution centers where it is then picked up by tanker truck to be delivered to the retail locations. Trucks do no haul fuel from one end of the country to the other.
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My source, I worked driving a cash register for 3 years at a convenience store.
There is a massive fleet of diesel tankers hauling gasoline from tank farms to gas stations daily. Our station often received deliveries twice a day. It is critical to the gas companies that the inventory be "just in time" so the refineries can be run at 100% capacity.
Each truck can only fill a couple stations and has to return to refill and deliver more.
So, numbers vary, but if we take the middle numbers, there are 150,000 gas stations in the US. So, there is a massive fleet of tankers delivering gas every day to all those stations, and not all those stations are near a tank farm.
So, I take exception with your statement, "Trucks do not haul fuel from one end of the country to the other" is "technically" accurate. But is not accurate in rebuking the comment. The. comment could have been more accurate to say "From one end of the country to the other a massive fleet of trucks deliver fuel", since there are trucks all over the nation running all day every day delivering gas to consumers.
Also, let's not forget the supertankers that you forgot to mention, which use the lowest grade fuel oil and generate massive amounts of pollution delivering oil.