Roger you are absolutely right. The same thing happens here every time they predict a big snow storm coming in. People are lined up at the gas pumps trying to fill up there cars and like you said, bread and milk are gone quick. I have a freight liner farm truck with 125gal. tanks on each side, I keep it full most of the time. I figure I could siphon out of it for a while to run my pickup. Our big problem is the ice storms come through and knock all the power lines down, we are quite often without power at least once or twice for several days in the winter.