Friday, November 2, 2012

NYC and Jersey is in trouble.

Queens
There are over 8 million people without power, fuel, water or food. Where is the government? Where is FEMA? Where is the military? There is an aircraft carrier sitting 200 miles off shore. It needs to be brought in to generate electricity. There needs to be an airlift of humanitarian supplies right now! Why is the media not reporting this disaster in the making?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lines of New York area motorists scrambling for gasoline lengthened on Friday, as a third day of "panic buying" intensified even as pipelines and oil tankers resumed limited shipments.
The restoration of power to more than half the 8 million homes and businesses knocked out by Hurricane Sandy offered the best hope for boosting fuel supplies. Still, operations remained constrained across the complex New York Harbor network of storage tanks and pipelines. Two New Jersey refineries were still shut, with reports of severe damage at one.
Many service stations lacked the power to accept new fuel, even as tankers began to discharge millions of gallons of gasoline that were stuck offshore four days after Sandy smashed into the U.S. Northeast. As many as three-quarters of the area's filling stations were shut, either because of lack of fuel or a lack of power, by one estimate.
New York City cab driver Mohammad Sultan parked his yellow taxi at Hess station on Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn at midnight on Thursday so he could be first in line when a rumored fuel shipment arrived at 6 a.m.
At 9 a.m., with 180 vehicles behind him, the pumps were still empty. The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission said 24 percent fewer cabs were on the road Friday morning than at the same time last week.
"Because of the gas problem, there are thousands of yellow cabs sitting around wasting time and money," Sultan said.
The lack of fuel -- and of electric power to pump it -- had a noticeable impact on morning travel in the dense New York City and New Jersey area. Traffic through the Lincoln Tunnel was down more than 50 percent, authorities said, despite closure of the Holland Tunnel to the south. Some taxi drivers and frustrated commuters said they chose to stay home rather than search out scarce fuel.
Homes and businesses also needed gasoline and diesel to keep generators running.
Authorities scrambled to address the issue, but without power for pumps and oil tanks, the supply chain cannot work. Some people compared the lines to those that were seen nationwide during the oil crises in the 1970s.
The U.S. government waived the Jones Act barring foreign-flagged vessels from carrying fuel between U.S. ports in a bid to boost supplies from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. Benchmark gasoline futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) fell 2 percent on the news.
Still, such tankers would not arrive for a week, and could not discharge their cargo without power.

9 comments:

  1. How does it feel to be a flesh-eating ghoul, trying to force a non-issue? THERE WAS A _______ HURRICANE. It's going to be WEEKS before things are back to any semblance of normalcy. And then the debate about global warming, especially as it applies to coastal cities and towns, begins, if it hasn't already.

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    1. Anonymous11/02/2012

      MPOTS IS AN ASS. THERE WAS A HURRICANE. SINCE THEN THERE HAS BEEN AN INSUFFICIENT GOVERNMENTAL RESPONCE.

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  2. Anonymous11/02/2012

    Its all George Bush's fault.

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  3. Anonymous11/02/2012

    This is bad.

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  4. Anonymous11/02/2012

    I agree. The military should be put to work here. The US military help in Mexico and Japan just last year. Why not in new York.

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  5. pull the US flag down and run up any carribean dump and your sure to see the some movement. I don't like the fact of making it political but you lefties didnt stop at katrina. BUT,I also,realize that this is a big mess and can't be easy to remedy. where is the support? why isn't the navy in here? where is the national guard? just like Katrina the state has to allow the Feds to come in. this is coumo and bloombergs baby. but the Feds will take the fall. we will see how the obama zombies like how this turns out. the president won't get hurt here because of the election being so close. with the media in the bag for the dems even libya won't make a difference. get out to vote is all I can say to,change the current regime......

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  6. Anonymous11/03/2012

    Very bad for bumbling Obama. How many electoral votes in New York?

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  7. Anonymous11/03/2012

    Of course it won't be reported as bad as it really is. The media can't expose barry for the clueless, bumbling idiot that he is.

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  8. pull down old glory and run up some 3rd world flag and Washington will be tripping over themselves to help. if you remember from Katrina,the local government has to request help and relinquish control to the Feds. dems and dems how well,did that work out the last time. where is at least the national guard. have you notices how there is no reporting of the looting and gangs running around . gee, I wonder why . the corrupt media ....... vote on Tuesday and tell the entire family to also......


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