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AvGas Availability?
I am seeing a few NOTAMs stating "fuel unavailable".
Overall, what is your experience in the Southern US? What are your FBO's telling you? Are their suppliers telling them to expect/not expect future shipments? |
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Lots of gas here in Montana. I have a buddy that buys gas by the tanker
load, 8000 gallons at a time. The wholesale price today is $3.20. john smith wrote: I am seeing a few NOTAMs stating "fuel unavailable". Overall, what is your experience in the Southern US? What are your FBO's telling you? Are their suppliers telling them to expect/not expect future shipments? |
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"john smith" wrote in message . .. I am seeing a few NOTAMs stating "fuel unavailable". Overall, what is your experience in the Southern US? What are your FBO's telling you? Are their suppliers telling them to expect/not expect future shipments? ---------------------------------reply------------------------------------------------ Fuel is available in Mobile and Gulf Shores, Alabama.....$4.20. Stephen AL112 CAP |
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"john smith" wrote: I am seeing a few NOTAMs stating "fuel unavailable". Overall, what is your experience in the Southern US? What are your FBO's telling you? Plenty of 100LL at BFM. Are their suppliers telling them to expect/not expect future shipments? Don't know. |
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john smith wrote:
I am seeing a few NOTAMs stating "fuel unavailable". Overall, what is your experience in the Southern US? What are your FBO's telling you? Are their suppliers telling them to expect/not expect future shipments? At my home airport, OMH, in Virginia, the airport manager was talking about not selling gas. I asked him why and he said that they couldn't get anymore and he didn't want to run out. I asked him what good the fuel would do just sitting in the tank, and he shrugged. So I called AOPA and they said there was no concern of Avgas. They said there was only 1 refinery closed that even supplied avgas. They thought that there might be intermittent shortages here and there, but no long term shortages. The manager still wanted to stop gas sales even after hearing that. So I called the county manager and he told the airport manager to keep selling gas until they were out. |
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I bought some Avgas today at Rutherfordton. NC, and the guy said he had
600 gallons left - and didn't know when more would be delivered. Aircraft traffic seems higher than normal - but this may be due to near ideal flying weather the last couple of days. As for Mogas, there was a run on gas stations on Wednesday ( in AVL), with most running out at some point. Since then some have had gas and others not. I didn't see any lines at those that had gas today. Traffic on the roads seems lighter than usual. David Johnson |
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Newps wrote:
Lots of gas here in Montana. I have a buddy that buys gas by the tanker load, 8000 gallons at a time. The wholesale price today is $3.20. That's less than the local Hess station wants for mogas in NJ. George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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George Patterson wrote: Newps wrote: Lots of gas here in Montana. I have a buddy that buys gas by the tanker load, 8000 gallons at a time. The wholesale price today is $3.20. That's less than the local Hess station wants for mogas in NJ. And in Cowley, WY(U68); 100LL is going for $2.75. Stopped there today and topped off as it's only 50 miles from Billings. I'll probably offload most of that into my 100 gallon tank in the hangar and get some more in the next few days. He has about 3-4000 gallons left at that price. They raise or lower prices only with each tanker load. |
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Newps wrote:
They raise or lower prices only with each tanker load. Elisabeth filled up on the Garden State Parkway yesterday. While I was seeing $3.19 on Thursday and $3.24 on Friday, she paid $2.65. Normally the Parkway's prices are higher than elsewhere, but the State mandated that the stations that are licensed to sell on the GSP are only allowed to change their prices once a week. I expect they're considerably higher now. I was surprised to see one station selling regular for $2.85 on Thursday. It seems that the manager follows the same policy as your FBOs. George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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"George Patterson" wrote: I was surprised to see one station selling regular for $2.85 on Thursday. It seems that the manager follows the same policy as your FBOs. Today I waited in line 25 minutes in Daphne, AL and paid $2.59/gal. Yesterday, lines were 2-4 hours long all over the Mobile Bay area. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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