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Transportation fuel demand remains below pre-pandemic levels

Published: 27 August 2025
Categories: US Energy Information Administration

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August 27, 2025

Five years after the COVID-19 national emergency was declared, gasoline demand, distillate demand, and jet fuel demand all remain less than pre-pandemic averages. Several factors are keeping demand, which we track as product supplied, below pre-pandemic levels. For example, increased fuel efficiency in the vehicle and aircraft fleets has offset increased travel, and demand for petroleum-based distillate fuel oil has been partially replaced by biomass-based distillate fuels.

Finished motor gasoline

In April 2020 (the first full month following the March 13 declaration of the COVID-19 national emergency), U.S. gasoline demand fell to 5.9 million b/d, the lowest since January 1974. In April 2025, U.S. gasoline demand averaged 8.9 million barrels per day (b/d), 52% higher than it was in April 2020 but below the April 2019 average of 9.4 million

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Unlocking enterprise agility in the API economy

Published: 27 August 2025
Categories: MIT Tech Review

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Across industries, enterprises are increasingly adopting an on-demand approach to compute, storage, and applications. They are favoring digital services that are faster to deploy, easier to scale, and better integrated with partner ecosystems. Yet, one critical pillar has lagged: the network. While software-defined networking has made inroads, many organizations still operate rigid, pre-provisioned networks. As applications become increasingly distributed and dynamic—including hybrid cloud and edge deployments—a programmable, on-demand network infrastructure can enhance and enable this new era.

From CapEx to OpEx: The new connectivity mindset

Another, practical concern is also driving this shift: the need for IT models that align cost with usage. Rising uncertainty about inflation, consumer spending, business investment, and global supply chains are just a few of the economic factors weighing on company decision-making. And chief information officers (CIOs) are scrutinizing capital-expenditure-heavy infrastructure more closely and increasingly adopting operating-expenses-based

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FEMA Authorizes Funds to Fight Montana’s Windy Rock Fire

Published: 27 August 2025
Categories: FEMA News

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DENVER – This afternoon, FEMA authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Windy Rock Fire burning in Powell County, Montana, about midway between Missoula and Helena. 

FEMA Region 8 Acting Regional Administrator Katherine Fox approved the state’s request for a federal Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) after receiving the request this afternoon and determining that the fire threatened such destruction that it would constitute a major disaster.

At the time of the request, the Windy Rock Fire was threatening 179 structures, many of which are primary homes, near the towns of Helmville and Drummond. The fire is also threatening roads and bridges, utilities, businesses, watersheds, irrigation and economic injury. Mandatory evacuations are in place for the surrounding communities. A shelter has been opened in Deer Lodge and a water distribution center is being operated in Drummond.

The fire started on August 14, 2025, later merged with the nearby Devils Mountain Fire, and has burned in excess of 3,641 acres. It is zero percent contained and there are three other large fires burning uncontrolled within the state.  

The authorization makes FEMA funding available to pay 75 percent of the state’s eligible firefighting costs under an approved grant for managing, mitigating and controlling designated fires. These grants do not provide assistance to individual home or business owners and do not cover other infrastructure damage

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