Tanker-TRUCK, not oil-TANKER

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There's been some confusion today about what actually happened Sunday to damage the section of Interstate 580 near the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge.

The cause for this confusion is clearly a predilection to presume that anything called a TANKER is necessarily an ocean-going vessel. But there is a vast difference between a FUEL-TANKER (usually called a tanker-TRUCK in THIS neck-of-the-woods) and an OIL-TANKER.

Here's how it's being reported in the UK>>> Bay Area Commuters Face Nightmare

To set the record straight, what REALLY happened is that yesterday, a truck hauling refined fuel (otherwise known as Gasoline) crashed on one of the elevated sections of highway 580 that connects the East-Bay freeways with the Bay Bridge. The best I can determine is that the fuel being transported spilled-out, caught fire, and melted the STRUCTURAL steel (that reinforces the concrete pilings holding up the span)--my personal opinion.

The section that was damaged is nowhere near any commercial ships.

San Francisco Bay itself IS a place where oceangoing vessels frequent (hence the bridge-system), but NO SHIPS were involved in this crazy accident.

I point this out because the price of gasoline is already outrageous here...so the last thing we need is a spike in gas prices as a result of misperceived facts.

But only time will tell.