“You are missing the point that it takes a heck of a lot more than restoring the grid to restoring the gasoline supply.”
I’m not missing the point - I should have stated that sentence to include the refining plants repairs:
“when the grid is finally fixed and refining plants repaired, the cars and trucks won’t be dead pieces of junk”
I lived around NASA in the Clear Lake area for over sixteen years and a family member worked in the Texas City refining business. I truly do know how vital that area is to refining oil.
Honestly, if such an event occurs, that in a major portion of the US destroyed nearly every non-hardened electrical device, we would have a lot bigger problems than gasoline.
Picture the Eastern seaboard without a working refrigerator, microwave, oven and stove. Now add in every grocery store unable to refrigerate, sell, or order food. And all restaurants cannot function.
Now add none of the water pumps work.
Would it really be much different than a Zombie Apocalypse at that point?