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 and is seen in both the ending to Chapter Two and the beginning of Chapter Three in the campaign Hard Rain of Left 4 Dead 2.

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 provide facilities for comfort stops, serving food and drinks to 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
Although speculative, it is possible to infer that once the order to evacuate the town of Ducatel was recieved, local residents went on a panic fuel-buying spree which Ducatel Diesel's owner-operators responded to by selling their fuel on a rationed basis using 5-gallon gas cans. Once the initial panic died down, the operators siphoned whatever fuel remained in their tanks into Gas Cans and stored them in a safe room behind the café. Thereafter, when the operators themselves pulled out, they simply left the last fuel behind with a strict but empty injuction to later arrivals to take only what they need from this stock. By the time the Survivors arrive, the convenience store has been comprehensively looted and only four cans of diesel fuel remain.

Once Survivors have healed, rearmed and strapped on a diesel can each, they exit the safe room and discover that the weather outside has deteriorated and the forecourt is once again heavily infested with Infected. The dark sky, heavy rain and flooding make it difficult to see, hear and to navigate―conditions that pertain to the rest of this chapter and the next.