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NYC GAS DOOM: NYC Taxi Firms Run Out of Gas, Up to 75 Percent Stations Are Not Able To Sell Gasoline, Troopers Deployed To Gas Stations, Shortages May Not End for Another Week
NYC taxi firms run out of Gas “In New York City over 50 percent of stations are not able to sell gasoline and it could be up to 75 percent,”
Could this be the thing that suspends the election ? or time to raise the Gasoline prices nationwide !
Gasoline crunch deepens, NYC taxi firms run out of fuel
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“In New York City over 50 percent of service stations are not able to sell gasoline and it could be up to 75 percent,” said Ralph Bombardiere, executive director of the New York State Association of Service Stations and Repair Shops.
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Fuel supplies into New York and New Jersey are being choked off in several ways: two refineries that make up a quarter of the region’s gasoline and diesel capacity are idle because of power outages or flooding; the New York Harbor waterway that imports a fifth of the area’s fuel is still closed to traffic, and major import terminals are damaged and powerless.
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You should see the subway lines because of it. On gawker.com is a picture of a 6 block line to enter the subway!! They said there are many of these lines! WOW. City is crippled when transit goes down.
Why East Coast Gas Shortages May Not End for a Week
Power outages at hundreds of gas stations and a distribution bottleneck due to flooding damage and power loss has caused a gasoline shortage in the New York metropolitan area that may not be cleared up for at least a week, according to industry experts.
What was a problem for drivers when Super Storm Sandy ended two days ago has become a nightmare for frazzled motorists who find themselves in gas lines that can stretch on for hours. Some lines were hundreds of cars long in sections of New Jersey and New York Thursday, and in a number of locations police monitored the lines which interfered with traffic flow in some areas.
The problem is not gasoline supplies, but the ability to distribute it, especially from the critical area around Linden, N.J. An estimated 75 percent or more of the gas stations in New Jersey were closed either because they had no gasoline, no power or both, said Sal Risalvato, executive director of the N.J. Gasoline, Convenience, Automotive Association. His organization represents about 1,000 gasoline stations in N.J.
