b'Silver & Gold Novella NoelNEVADA Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Association ReportNPM&CSA place to make the close on future business. If you want to be part of thiscool event and grow your business, come toNevadas Big Dogs Howl May 7 & 8, 2020 in Las Vegas. ARE WE PREPARED? PROBABLY NOT! Peter KruegerNPM&CSA Silver State Summary Executive DirectorIs your business or NPM&CSA prepared for a major fuel supply disruption,let alone earthquakes or other natural disasters? I cannot speak for our members, but I can tell you that your association is not! In the past 6 weeks northern Nevada has come close to running out of gasoline and diesel fuel once because of the contract dispute between the Union Pacific Railroad and Kinder Morgan. Over the busy Labor Day week, ethanol railcars were sitting in the Sparks railyard waiting to be spotted to Kinder Morgan offload facility. If it werent for the Nevada Petroleum, Chevron and Marathon getting the attention of the Governors office there would have been little or no gasoline for sale in northern Nevada over the Labor Day Holiday.Last week the power was turned off in most of northern California for fire danger. The Kinder Morgan pipeline supplying northern Nevada from the Bay Area came very close to running out of diesel fuel. We need to educate our state and local officials how very fragile Nevadas fuel distribution system is from day to day. We must begin to change that by working with our state and local Emergency Management officials. Mark Your Calendar!BEWARE STORE ASS & C- OCIR S ATILocal anti-digital sign folks are out to limit or prohibitdigitalT E O NK E!gasoline price signs in your city or county. It almost happened in RenoA RLMWlast month. A small group of citizens convinced the Reno Planning Commission to limit the number of times you could change your priceMUsigns to once every 24 hours. With the help of Young Electric Sign EOLCompany (YESCO) we were able to overturn that decision at the ORHReno City Council. Nevada and other states may be challenged to TEP keep track of pending ordinances at the local level. Local governmentsSADhave significant impact on our members day to day business operations A VG- greater than the state legislature will ever have. We need the help of our E N20 Omembers to learn what is going on at the local level so that your associa-B Dtion can engage where needed. SGILas Vegas May 7-8, 2020NPM&CSA BIG DOGS HOWLRed Rock Casino Resort & Spa BOWLING, & GOLF at Siena Golf ClubWPMA News / Winter 201943'