Not trying to be snide here, but the refineries might be down for awhile, but I’ve seen people get gas without electricity, you’ve just got to jury rig a hand pump to get it out of the underground tanks.
Not saying there wouldn’t be problems once the tanks were dry, but if people don’t go sight seeing, might have enough to get by...if they are careful.
I understand what you’re saying. But it would be more complicated than that. Trucks supplying food, grocery stores, farmers, hospitals, the banking system and everything else which is reliant on electricity, etc, etc would all be affected. It would be chaos. It would have a snowball effect.
The worst part would be the idiots.