Douglass Distributing and Lone Star Food Stores sent a press release to the Sherman Chamber of Commerce to educate the public on the current fuel shortage in the area. They say the shortage is a result of a southern refinery shutting down temporarily during the storms of Hurricane Harvey. In a written statement, Brad Douglass, CEO of Douglass Distributing said that he wanted everyone to know that they still have access to plenty of fuel . The lines that our delivery trucks are waiting in are just much longer because of the refinery shut down.
“We want everyone to know that we still have access to plenty of fuel – the lines that our delivery trucks are waiting in are just much longer because of the refinery shut down,” said Brad Douglass in a release to the Sherman Chamber of Commerce.
Douglass says that there is not an outage. There is fuel, but each delivery is just taking longer at the moment.
“We want to assure everyone that we have all of our delivery trucks out running 24 hours resupplying our local communities in Northeast Texas and South Eastern Oklahoma,” said Douglass. “We ask all of our neighbors make fuel purchases as you normally would – the worst thing we can do as a community is all of us showing up at one time to get fuel. This is creating an additional challenge for each delivery. If the community reacts that way, we may cause the outage at an individual location. We do not expect the shortage to last any longer than one week.”
