Found out this scanner app on my phone is more useful than I thought. Heard the call come over from Wawa that they were ready for the police to come which means they were gonna start pumping gas. Not sure if every gas station does this but this was the Wawa in Tinton Falls on Shafto road if anyone near needs to fuel up

When youre going on 4 -5 days without power and you need the generator for heat and the car to get necessities or for some people who have medical needs like dialysis..unless youve stockpiled 50 gallons of gas..youre gonna need a station at some point..and driving 50 miles to another state not knowing for certain if theyre open/have fuel isnt an option. Unfortunately we arent a survivalist society where we can all burn wood and hunt for food in our backyard and wait it out. My original point was simple but morphed into another govt **** session. If gas stations in affected areas had backup pumping capabilities..these lines wouldnt be an issue. Supply isnt the problem...pumping it is. It becomes a public safety issue very quickly and should serve as a window into what can happen if the S really HTF. But if you have 600 MRE's and 55 gal drums of fuel in youre bunker and are always prepared for everything then disregard above.

The station owners who had the foresight to stock generators are getting paid huge dividends now. That is the way this country was built. Mandating it is a horrible nanny-state idea. I drove out to Nazareth, PA yesterday to fetch fuel for my dad's genny(55mi one way). Paid a 2gal fee to get the fuel home, but there were no lines.

If you foresee yourself waiting in a line, then YOU are at fault. Drive 50 miles and fill up. Don't hope the closest station will have fuel. I highly doubt that everyone in line is running on fumes. They are just lazy or stupid.

 

lazy, we had a gentlemen at the fire house looking for diesel fuel for a elderly care facility i gave him 5 options and he would not go get the fuel he was looking for someone to do it for him, we sent him away as we did not have any fuel other than what was in the trucks..

I have about 3/8th of a tank left in my truck , and I'm working 16-20 hour days everyday all week at work, and now with the stupid 3+hov restrictions at the tunnels it took me 5 hours to get to work yesterday. Crazy! It's not even worth me going home to sleep for 4 hours and come back, I'm camped out in the backseat of my car to sleep until I start another 16hr shift at 3pm.

 

Conserving gas for the win! Damn it's cold in here!

Taking a page from your book: If u need heat or need electric for medical devices you should be required by the govt to have a natural gas generator.

 

Doesn't feel so good when someone else sells out YOUR freedom, does it...

Funny..i understand the whole nanny state thing..but i believe there are instances where safeguards gave to be in place If you look at the fees we pay for everything such as recreation..open space..surcharges on cell phones..car insurance surcharges..the list is endless..when it comes to requiring gas stations to make a one time generator purchase..which we could even provide incentives for them to do..because gas is something this country cant do without unfortunately..people are dead set against it..but keep paying for those other great fees for things like tire reclamation, uninsured motorist surcharge, yard shed permits, NJSEA ticket surcharge at metlife stadium..etc,, cause those are so important during times of natural disaster

"A New York man was arrested after pulling a gun on another driver as they waited in line for gas, one of several examples of frayed nerves caused by a gas shortage in the wake of superstorm Sandy."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/01/tensions-boil-over-at-gas-stations-as-pumps-run-dry-in-wake-sandy/#ixzz2B4UHNkjn

 

Let's hope the fuel situation improves quite quickly over the weekend as we could see an influx of people for the Marathon and who are now travelling back with the airports open who are looking to refuel.

 

TheWombat

Why are they running this dumb marathon?

 

Use the generators for the gas stations,

The cops to stop the looters

The food and supplies to the guys doing the repair work

And keep the influx of people out of the area

 

Run your stupid marathon two weeks from now.

I would think that anything that might be required during a natural catastrophe would have a manual backup. I know in the Army we had the tanker "retailer" that ran a small pony engine to pump fuel right out of the fuel truck.

 

If I owned a gas station I would be looking into some kind of pump driven by people power, but I doubt any station would due to the inaccuracies of the meter.

 

But all that is looking for others, or businesses rather, to help you.

 

For me, the first time I ever drove a car was when I was 8 and I just steered our Chevy Malibu wagon as my dad pushed it on a gas ration line in the seventies. With that memory I have never owned a vehicle that gets less than 35 mpg with 40 being the ideal.

Now of course I am lucky I don't need a large car so I can get away with that, but it seems to me that there is a huge majority of people that never thought about gas lines when they bought their cars. Or that gas as a commodity can go up in price at a moment's notice, wasting your personal economy.

 

So for me, until the nation actually starts buying for fuel economy then they should be thankful for whatever they get at the pump, no matter how little, expensive or scarce.

 

 

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Why are they running this dumb marathon?

 

Use the generators for the gas stations,

The cops to stop the looters

The food and supplies to the guys doing the repair work

And keep the influx of people out of the area

 

Run your stupid marathon two weeks from now.

 

+100 I AGREE

How large of a generator would be needed for the average gas station? Are there any stations with back up generators in New Jersey? I would think after a couple of days or a week the generator would be paying for itself. If need be couldn't a gas station owner who has a friend with a 10KW Generator or so just borrow the generator and get an electrician to install a transfer switch for a couple of hundred dollars and be good to go?