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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
As a side note, I am a little confused about the hoarding happening on the island. They have been cutoff from the mainland since the last ice age and get their crap through ports anyway.
Edit: Forget the last part I guess. I just clued in that a lot of their resources still come through Vancouver on land before shipping out.
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The gas hoarding is because of how fuel is distributed on Vancouver Island. None of it comes into Victoria by ship; it's all delivered up island and then delivered by truck. So when the highway was closed north of Victoria, people panicked thinking that Victoria was cut off. But as with basically any irrational hoarding, the only real shortage was due to increased demand. The highway is back open for single lane alternating traffic so fuel trucks can still get through.