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To: LindyBill who wrote (132567)	8/15/2005 10:39:29 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793838

remember when allocations came into place. stations would sell out first day or hours when they got a load of gas. Then we told them no delivers until x day. we would take last years demand divide by month and determine how much gasoline the station could get that month. we would then divide by truck loads how many delivers the station would get and space them out over the month. In order to save delivery costs we added to or from the month, from the next month's demand to make a full load delivery and reduce likewise a load from the next month. Stations soon learned to only open up pumps for a few hours a day and keep supplies of gasoline until next delivery. If they closed down completely they would lose customers. so if things get tight i doubt you will see gasoline sold in night hours. perhaps a number of hours during the day, of course we hope it doesn't get back to 1972. remember we then had to go to alternating days based on license plates to buy gas. still think it is a very dumb idea. The folks who got the bucks do not care about price. and those who would take alternate transportation as prices rise will no longer need to and will continue to buy gasoline keeping demand high.