Ducatel Diesel

"Looks like the gas is inside..."

- Ellis "Everyone got a gas can? I don't want to make this trip twice."

- Rochelle

Ducatel Diesel Gas Station serves as the main objective for the Survivors in the campaign, Hard Rain and the custom campaign, Gas Fever in Left 4 Dead 2. It appears at the end of Chapter Two and the beginning of Chapter Three in both campaigns.

History
This four-pump gas station is a typical roadside service facility on rural two-lane, blacktop highways anywhere in the United States. Apart from selling gas and diesel fuel, they provided the facilities for comfort stops, serving food and drinks to the truckers and motorists on a 24-hour basis. Attached to Ducatel Diesel is a typical "greasy spoon" café serving cocktails, pies and seafood dishes as well as a convenience store stocking such staples as beer, cigarettes, ice and packaged snack foods.

Current Status


After Ducatel received the order to evacuate due to the Green Flu, it is presumed that the inhabitants went on a fuel-buying panic to escape from the town. Ducatel Diesel's operators in response rationed the gas into five gallon gas cans. Once the craze died out, they siphoned all of the remaining fuel from their gas pumps and stored it in a safe room behind the cafe, leaving a message behind to ration the gas or be killed for disobeying the rules. As time passed, the passing survivors who needed gas went into the safe room and took what they needed, telling any other potential passerby to ration the gas as well.

Alternatively, the operators panicked and left the gas station completely alone, and survivors passing by siphoned the fuel to leave it in the safe room.

Regardless of what actually happened, by the time that the Survivors came to the gas station in the hopes of finding the fuel for Virgil's boat, the gas station is overrun with Infected and only four gas cans are conveniently placed in the safe room. It is possible that some Survivors tried to hold out, but were routed or killed due to the infestation of Witches attracted to the nearby sugar company.