Is Nevada prepared if California's fuel pipelines go down? Not enough, experts caution.

Electric vehicle purchases are on the rise in Nevada, but the vast majority of Silver State drivers — 92 percent — still rely on gas-powered vehicles. Those vehicles consumed 1.2 billion gallons of gasoline last year. When combined with jet fuel and diesel, the amount of fuel used in the state last year jumped to 2.5 billion gallons. All that fuel was delivered to the state via just three pipelines — two from California and one from Utah. If one of those lines goes down, or if a refinery that feeds the pipelines closes — scenarios that have both played out over the last few years — Nevada has no alternatives for procuring fuel. At any given time, it only has one week's worth of fuel in storage. Because fuel is used for everything from trucking to emergency response, "a fuel disruption can quickly become a public safety issue, not just an inconvenience at the pump," according to the Office of Emergency Management/Homeland Security. Last year, Gov.

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