{"id":6225,"date":"2015-03-05T20:19:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2015-03-05T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:19:48","slug":"some-toronto-area-gas-stations-run-out-of-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6225","title":{"rendered":"Some Toronto area gas stations run out of fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/some-toronto-area-gas-stations-run-out-of-fuel-1.2983303\" target=\"_blank\">Some Toronto area gas stations run out of fuel<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Extreme weather blamed, but some analysts say Canada lacks refinery capacity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Motorists are pulling up at some Toronto-area gas stations to find that the pumps are dry.<\/p>\n<p>The oil companies that supply fuel in the area have said it\u2019s a temporary situation, caused by extreme winter weather and\u00a0a power outage.<\/p>\n<p>But Natural Resources Canada says southern Ontario and other parts of Canada may face frequent gasoline shortages in the future, as nearby refineries are already operating at capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Without new refining capacity \u201csupply interruptions could become more frequent and increasingly difficult to manage,\u201d the government agency says\u00a0in an online report.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians increased their consumption of gasoline by two per cent or 800 million litres in the first nine months of 2014, to 38 billion litres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Petroleum\u00a0companies are suggesting this is logistics. I sense there&#8217;s\u00a0product issue somewhere as the weather is not likely to have contributed to this shortfall, which covers the entire Golden Horseshoe,&#8221; said Dan McTeague, with GasBuddy.ca, which tracks the price of gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Toronto area gas stations run out of fuel Extreme weather blamed, but some analysts say Canada lacks refinery capacity Motorists are pulling up at some Toronto-area gas stations to find that the pumps are dry. The oil companies that supply fuel in the area have said it\u2019s a temporary situation, caused by extreme winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[103,349,3939,3937,3936,3938,803],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-canada","tag-gas","tag-gas-consumption","tag-gas-refineries","tag-gasoline-shortages","tag-natural-resources-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}