In the wake of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, gasoline supplies have been incredibly tight in the American Southeast because refineries throughout the Gulf region were shut down due to a combination of evacuations and damage.  Even as prices eased nationally alongside the general decline in oil prices, gas stations in the Southeast regularly report shortages and even the complete lack of gasoline.

According to a number of published reports, gasoline shortages will be eliminated in the next 10 days as the refineries have come back on line and gasoline shipments resume up the main pipelines, and (hopefully) drivers ease off of the natural tendency to hoard, which throws everything askew. 

For those of you in the gasoline, oil, or fuel supply business, I thought it would be helpful to link to a number of different types of sample agreements and contracts from top law firms, including:

• general supply agreements – a listing of thousands of supply agreements of all types from top law firms
• oil and gas supply agreements - links to specific agreements dealing with oil and gas suppliers
• fuel supply agreement - a sample fuel supply agreement

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