(ND, SD, MN) Some fuel terminals have short-term outages

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Terminals have run out of fuel in West Fargo and Grand Forks in North Dakota; Alexandria, Minn.; and Sioux Falls, S.D.

Officials are trying to figure out why.

"That's the million-dollar question," said Dawna Leitzke, executive director of the South Dakota Petroleum and Propane Marketers Association.

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Dozens of tanker trucks lined up in West Fargo on Wednesday, after a new batch of fuel was delivered.

Burl Ingebretsen, a truck driver for Matson Oil Co. of Moorhead, Minn., said he waited in line in West Fargo for 10 hours. By the time it was his turn, Magellan posted a sign saying it was out of regular gas.

http://www.startribune.com/local/27550659.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7EaDiaMDCiUT

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1. "trying to figure out why"???

So it's not just Saudi Arabian oil information that is cloaked in unobtainium?
This doesn't seem like it would be rocket science.

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2. unobtainium huh; I was really hoping they wouldn't use that.

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3. I had the same reaction.

How long can it take to track down what's happening? Start with the gas station owner, and work backward. "Excuse me, sir, why are you not receiving your shipments of gasoline?"