Motherboard: The seas are going to keep rising, and the super-storms are going to keep coming, so scattering a bunch of giant gasoline storage tanks across the nation for emergency use is probably a good idea. Still, nothing signals the nation's impending Mad Maxification quite like news that the US government is spending $215 million to build 500,000-gallon tanks--the first of many--explicitly for use in future Hurricane Sandy-like crises.
"Building on lessons learned from recent extreme weather events like...