Federal government promises fuel deliveries to Rita evacuees

[sabra]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/23/hurricanes.washington.ap/

Federal government promises fuel deliveries to Rita evacuees
Bush to review preparations Friday

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal authorities began counting down to Hurricane Rita's arrival with last-minute promises to deliver fuel to hundreds of thousands of evacuees fleeing the shifting storm that covered half of the Gulf of Mexico.

President Bush was to fly Friday afternoon to his home state of Texas, where highways were jammed with people trying to escape Rita's expected landfall early Saturday. The president was to review preparations and thank first responders who were among the hundreds of emergency personnel dispatched to expected disaster areas. (Full Story)

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Extra fuel was Texas Gov. Rick Perry's "No. 1 request," Federal Emergency Management Agency acting director R. David Paulison said Thursday afternoon.

"We are working to process that request now," said Paulison, who enlisted the Pentagon and National Guard to deliver gasoline to evacuees and first responders. "There will be fuel on the ground."

[AValdoux]

1. Fuel Trucks

I posted this to another message thread

Construction companies that use heavy equipment have transfer tanks in the beds of their trucks complete with service station nozzles. Some of the larger companies have large tanker trucks they use. I worked for a small company that had twelve such pickup trucks. They use them to refuel their heavy equipment on job sites so they don't have to move them to refuel. If they had of announced we need all these trucks we can get, believe me the construction industry between Dallas & Houston would have showed up in full force.


AValdoux

[TahitiNut]

2. Take SPECIAL NOTE of what FEMA is doing this time.

All the bullshit arguments about how these things were somehow the responsibility of state and local government (where local government was laready the victim of Katrina and faulty levees) is totally belied by the posturing of FEMA at this point.

[damntexdem]

3. Oh, well then, their problems are all over. LOL!

And who did they contract it out to: Halliburton?

I depend on CITGO myself.