Department of Defense setting up free, emergency gas stations in NYC metro area

NY Post ^ | 11/3/12 | AP

[jimbo123]

Gov. Cuomo says the Department of Defense will set up emergency mobile fuel stations at five locations around the New York City metro area.

Free gasoline will be distributed, with a 10-gallon per-person limit, Cuomo announced at a briefing today.

[kearnyirish2]

I took Governor Christie’s rationing law yesterday as a sign that things were deteriorating instead of improving on the gasoline front; this confirms my suspicion.

Who is paying for these free $40 per pop fill-ups? I know; I am.

[JRandomFreeper]

The safety NCO in me just crapped bricks. This could get ugly if there's an accident. Fuel points are frigging dangerous.

/johnny

[Sacajaweau]

I’d say this is illegal....It should be free why??

[Bryan24]

What is the legality of this? DoD fuel is appropriated by congress. Is there provision to give this to the public?

[Cicero]

Hey! What about me? I want 10 gallons of free gas! And where’s my phone?

[Pearls Before Swine]

So I asked myself to apply economic analysis to this: “Will this action shorten the lines?”

Hmmmm, what do you think—price control at zero will create excess demand. Hell, even if you don’t need the ten gallons, you’ll be able to resell it!

[PalmettoMason]

Why not just build a couple of windmills and put up some solar panels?

[Jane Long]

Free stuff!!!

[timestax]

How bizarre is this !

[jimbo123]

[Bryanw92]

Black people in New Orleans need to riot over this. They didn’t get free gas from the DoD! Obama needs to send them $40 Wal-Mart gift cards NOW!

[barryobi]

If obama can give them ObamaPhones, he can give em gas too.

The problem is these sites will be OVERWHELMED with people, whether they need the gas or not. You will see people taking the gas and reselling it a block away.

With 8-10 sites, it could be like Nigeria where the unsavory characters often blow themselves up by trying to illegally tapping gas pipelines to siphon off fuel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/world/africa/27nigeria.html?_r=0
Ige Oladimeji, a senior official for the Nigerian Red Cross, said his workers had counted 260 bodies by nightfall and had taken 60 injured people to hospitals. “We are still counting, but there will not be hundreds more,” he said.

Residents said a gang of thieves had been tapping the pipeline for months, carting away gasoline in tankers for resale.

Tapping is common in Nigeria, a major oil exporter, where many of the 130 million people live in woeful poverty amid widespread graft that makes a handful of people wealthy. One pilfered can of gasoline sold on the black market can earn the equivalent of two weeks of wages for a poor Nigerian.

But tapping also causes frequent accidents. In May, 150 people died in a similar explosion east of Lagos, and a pipeline fire in 1998 killed 1,500 in southern Nigeria.

The blast occurred after thieves opened the conduit during the night but left without fully sealing it, prompting hundreds of nearby residents to rush to collect spurting gasoline in cans, buckets and even plastic bags, witnesses said.

[swamprebel]

Just Wow, no gulf coast state, or Carolina state has ever been offered this.

[Bryanw92]

>>Hmmmm, what do you think—price control at zero will create excess demand. Hell, even if you don’t need the ten gallons, you’ll be able to resell it!

I hope Fox News covers the ensuing riot when the freeeeeee gasssss runs out in a few hours.

[Lera]

Free Molotov cocktail supplies for thugs .
What could possibly go wrong with this ?

[Ms Mable]

Department of Defense setting up free(taxpayer), emergency gas stations in NYC metro area (thru 6th of Nov.)

[jimbo123]

[Alberta's Child]

This seems awfully silly. NYC doesn't need mobile fuel stations. They simply need power to be restored to existing fuel stations, and new fuel supplies brought to stations that have run dry in recent days.

What am I missing here?

[palmer]

prompting hundreds of nearby residents to rush to collect spurting gasoline in cans, buckets and even plastic bags, witnesses said

They needed one of those signs that says "it is against federal law to dispense gasoline into unapproved containers"

[palmer]

You are missing the politics. After the derecho hit WV last summer, there was not a drop of gasoline in many locations, but not a single person in Washington gave a hoot.

[sanjuanbob]

A media blitz for Obama during the final weekend...when you’ve got an IQ of 60, who won’t vote for you for free gas?

[timestax]

Do they get a free quart of oil too? Hows about a free gallon of windshield washer fluid also. After all, Sandy made for dirty windows, right? And free a tire alignment, cuz they had to drive over trees and debris, right? And finally, a big ole free cuppa coffee, hey the deserve it right?

[DouglasKC]

I want to see what happens when there’s a 20,000 people waiting for free gas and they run out. The 18,000 or so who don’t get free gas aren’t going to be happy after waiting for hours and getting screwed.

[deport]

This seems awfully silly. NYC doesn’t need mobile fuel stations.

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Correct and you’d think that mobile generators would at least do the trick of getting power to the pumps, etc so that they could function.

[MissMagnolia]

Appeasing the peasants ...... trying to keep the lid on a bad situation until after Nov. 6.

[Alberta's Child]

Yeah, but what’s the point when you’re in a state that is going to be voting for Obama anyway? Do you think anyone in Ohio or Colorado is going to vote for Obama because a bunch of welfare sheep in NYC are getting 10 gallons of free gasoline?

[Right Wing Assault]

FREE?? Why?

[AceMineral]

You need to be President.

[Jane Long]

A media blitz for Obama during the final weekend...when you’ve got an IQ of 60, who won’t vote for you for free gas?

Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner!

Same with the Red Cross/Sandy "ads" starring 0. Nothing but campaign spots.

Lessee, I don't recall free gas being distributed during Allison, Rita or Ike, down here in Texas.

[Errant]

Yea, they need to get a move on with these relief efforts. The clock is ticking and they're WAY behind and have underestimated the massive effort and planning required.

Beck's Mercury One was ahead of everyone with supply trucks on-site and has raised well over 1 million while the MSM and libs are still trying to put together some fancy star studded fund raiser - retards.

[jimbo123]

[P-Marlowe]

Free?

Watch for riots.

[procrustes]

It was not widly reported, but the President ordered this yesterday or earlier. It is free because, without power, people have no access to their money!

[Moonman62]

Who is paying for these free $40 per pop fill-ups? I know; I am.

DoD gas is probably closer to $100 a gallon.

[carlo3b]

OK, that does it!!!!

I’m going to vote TWICE this time.. I am going to use my Maiden Name, Carlo3000B, and my post divorce name Carlo3b.. YUP!

[AppyPappy]

Giving away free gasoline in a crime ridden area of the country.

What could go wrong?
Oh I know. No cameras to film the event.

[mo]

Can somebody please remind us all just exactly what it is FEMA supposedly does for We the People?

[Nuc 1.1]

When you want something done get the armed forces involved.

[NoKoolAidforMe]

But don’t you people realize that Mario Jr. is even smarter than Obama? He’s going to run for president someday you know.

Unfrigginbelievable.

[mo]

the latest Dem Polling must be leaving them scared about losing New York...

[kearnyirish2]

“DoD gas is probably closer to $100 a gallon.”

Great; $1K per fill-up...

[AppyPappy]

I smell a riot about to start.

[Rusty0604]

That will teach those price gougers

[jimbo123]

Fights breaking out at Obama’s free gas giveaway in Freeport Long Island.

[Zhang Fei]

What I don’t get is why they’re not selling gasoline to the gas stations with insufficient supply at market prices.

[timestax]

Ha ha

[jimbo123]

Twitter reports: moe ‏@moeskeleton @swishalicious33 two gas tanks are giving out free gas. a whole lotta people are fighting to get in line. it's just crazy over here jessica marquez ‏@miniaturerhino Panic in Crown Heights. People are swarming w/ gas cans for a free gas. Police everywhere, humvees, fighting, & crazy standstill traffic...

[EBH]

If they are pulling it from the emergency stockpile...I think they may be OK to do this.

Now...as far as it being a ‘smart’ thing to do? That remains to be seen.

[Doogle]

...ask your Congresscritter