<VV> Gas Shortage in NY (NO CORVAIR)

[Jim]

Frank,

I understand and fill your pain, as we routinely lose our power in
Southeastern Michigan in the country and it has nothing to do with the
Government.
In our case the problem lies with storms and wind.  People are not giving
the utility companies enough credit for what they do.  They are working as
hard
and fast as the safely can.  Take a good look at what has happened to power
infrastructure because of the two storms.

I am not looking to start a flame war or anything like that, but I think
credit needs to be given to the utility companies and the Government is not
(in my
opinion) is not to blame for the electrical problems.

Jim V.
Michigan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of FrankCB at aol.com
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2012 10:41 AM
To: gojoe283 at yahoo.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Gas Shortage in NY (NO CORVAIR)

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.


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