Refinery Problems Fuel Gas Shortage, Price Hikes

DES MOINES, Iowa — A massive oil refinery fire in Oklahoma is to blame for empty gas pumps in Iowa.

Huge flames and clouds of smoke poured out of the Wynnewood refinery late Friday night.

Officials said a lightning strike sparked the fire in two 80,000-gallon tankers.


But hundreds of miles away, the blaze caused many unleaded gas pumps to run dry at stations in Iowa City and Fort Dodge.

Trying to get gas in parts on Iowa on Monday was not easy.

“I didn’t really expect it here” a customer said.

In Fort Dodge, pipelines have run dry.

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