<VV> Gas Shortage in NY (NO CORVAIR)

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Bill,
    That's exactly why when we were kicked off of one  of NJ's barrier 
islands the Sunday BEFORE the hurricane arrived, as soon as I  arrived home I 
stopped to completely FILL UP my 20 gal. tank in my  car.  I knew once the 
power loss became widespread in the NYC/NJ area,  getting gas would be a MAJOR 
problem.
    I still remember back in 1974 waiting in line 3  HOURS in the evening 
to get gas and having my wife wait HOURS in the morning to  fill up her 
Corvair.  And at that time we had NO problems with  electric power supply.  
Fortunately, this time I only lost power for 2  hours, but my friend lost it for 
2 DAYS so we had to move all her fridge  contents from her house to mine and 
then move them back when her power  returned.
    Do we really think the government that  can't keep us supplied with 
electric power and gasoline can be trusted  to successfully run our entire 
country's Health Care system????
    Frank Burkhard
    Boonton, NJ 
 
 
In a message dated 11/9/2012 10:05:14 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
gojoe283 at yahoo.com writes:

I'm  guessing that you folks who live outside the NY-NJ area can't imagine 
the  hours and hours of waiting to buy gasoline as a result of the breakdown 
of the  fuel distribution system in the Northeast from Sandy last week.  
>From the  hundreds of gas stations that are in Brooklyn, where I live, no more 
than  about 10 have gasoline at any given time.  They get a delivery, cars 
line  up for blocks, and halfway through the line,they run out.  There are 
cops  at every station directing traffic and ensuring that no one cuts the  
lines.  This is worse than the 1974 crisis, which I remember vividly  since I 
already had a car then.  A lot of this is due to the incompetence  of the 
authorities who are responsible for fuel distribution, as well as a  
crumbling infrastructure that can't handle any type of stress.  NYC is  now on a 
rationing, odd/even gas system, which they should have implemented  last week.  
Better late than  never.