So what does that have to do with a gas station getting a delivery just before the power goes out? Do the fuel companies or the truckers know in advance of a power outage and stop deliveries? This is very interesting if this is going on. I have never noticed that around here, but then I've never looked for it.
You are totally missing the point. The vast majority of fuel moves by pipeline from the refineries to the distribution points. Gas here comes from a refinery some 250 miles away. If power supplies are disrupted as noted earlier in this thread, fuel deliveries to the distribution points are disrupted because the pipeline pumps have no power.
Based on the tank farms in this area, I doubt that there is more than a single day supply available at any time. Disrupt the power and in one day there will be no more deliveries to the local gas stations. And it matters not whether there are vehicles ready and willing to make the deliveries.
There are not enough vehicles available to deliver fuel 250 miles via highway, so disruption of the power supply in effect totally shuts down fuel availability here in a few days at most. Not just at a few gas stations, but at all gas stations regardless whether there is local power availability or not.
Years ago, when I was younger, most fuel in this area was delivered via railroad tank cars to small distribution points along the way. At that time there were tank farms even in small towns around here. I can remember 3 tank farms in the town I grew up in (20,000 pop), Shell, Flying A, and Texaco, all on railroad spurs. Now there are none. I think there were others, but I don't remember them.
Now all deliveries are semi-trucked in 50 miles from the regional distribution point. Once fuel began being delivered by pipeline, tank farms even in the regional center disappeared. Right now I can only think of one tank farm left in the regional center, and its size dictates that fuel is delivered "just-in-time" to an area that has doubled in population since I was a kid. Disrupt that just-in-time model, and within days vehicles won't move.
Do a search about refineries in the U.S. You will find vast swaths of the country with no convenient refinery should something go amiss. And if the enviro-idiots and the EPA get their way, there will not be ANY refineries in the U.S.
BTW, I am not against protecting and preserving the environment - I am all for it and do what I can towards that end. But, I am against enviro-idiots who will cut off their nose to spite their face and expect me to do the same idiotic thing.