Calcasieu Point

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Originally Posted by Gottogo49

I'm certainly not complaining but the dock could be extended downward a little, on extremely low tides your boat can drift under the dock. It would be nice to have a walkway between the moored boats so you wouldn't have to enter and exit from the bow. I have seen people get tripped up in the trolling motor and bust themselves, especially when trying to carry a bucket of live shrimp. Talen's set up the fuel station at Heberts, why wouldn't they want a similar set up at their place or at Calcasieu Point. They could make it credit card only so that it didn't require constant attention. The problem with unmanned is the potential for a spill. I agree a boat wash would be nice. I bet that it would pay for itself quickly.

As the former Compliance/Regulartory Manager of Talen's Marine & Fuel, I may be able to shed some light on that for you. The set up for what you are talking about (unmanned/credit card scanner) is very expensive. Since the mark up on fuel is small, a huge amount of volume would have to be sold to make a profit. Before that could ever happen, the USCG would have to give them the blessing. Their facility on the LNG is a USCG inspected/permitted facility since oil transfers take place there. I highly doubt the Port Commander of LC would approve an unmanned gasoline fill site at the facility based on the words "unmanned" and "LNG". In the past, we set up small fuel tanks for people on their own property for their boats, but that did not fall under USCG jurisdiction.

As you can imagine, the Code of Federal Regulations book would need to be thrown away for the USCG to approve them in this case! And that ain't happening!!!!