Q makes some good points, with the single quibble that gasoline and other usable motor fuels are almost never transported by pipelines. Crude oil, sometimes partially refined for consistency is sent via pipe lines, but is useless unless there are nearby operable refineries at the receiving point to refine the crude products to something useful.

The gas obtained by "fracking" could be piped to a destination and in some cases could be used with little or not additional refining, but conversion of any significant number of vehicles to use it directly would be very expensive, and in most cases would take longer than just waiting for normal petrol products to be made available.

The tired blather from Stringflinger is rather contradictory to the actual fact that fuel prices have decreased in the past couple of weeks in the US, only in part due to some reasons related to the "present emergency" in the eastern part of the country.

All minor points.

John