Editorʼs Notebook

Supply problems are not a new challenge.

When I was in high school I remember when the family’s filling station nearly ran out of gasoline. Dad was gone and he had left me charge. I didn’t know how I could explain how I let the station run out of its best selling item and frantically worked to solve the problem.

It was standard procedure to measure the fuel left in all tanks at opening every morning as we balanced recorded sales with the gallons pumped to make sure all sales were recorded and the money accounted for.

When the amount of fuel on hand dropped to a predetermined level, the refiner...

 

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