Posted on 11/04/2012 5:24:06 AM PST by Moseley
All his advisors and czars are ivory tower socialists and have no idea how the real world works.
“we passed a law, so it is fixed.”
How about simply restoring electrical power and removing price controls? I don’t see how commandeering Air Force planes and cruise ships efficiently solves the problems. Stop letting help be turned away by unions.
It’s interesting to keep hearing recommendations to ditch protocols or cut bureaucratic red tape. It suggests to me that stuff isn’t necessary in the first place.
We now see what Chris Christi is made of too... 300 lbs of meat loaf with mashed potatoes for brains and a backbone of gravy... he probably still doesn’t realize that he and NJ were just back drops for a free Obama election ad, with his smooth baritone, presidential sounding voice telling America, HE’S got it covered (only to hustle more dollars for his campaign shortly after). Chris Christi, if Obama was Twiddly Dee then your Twiddly Dumb... go become a democrat like all the rest of the NE Repubs when their backs are against the wall...
Why use aircraft when we have these large flat things called Interstate highways that tanker trucks drive on (to paraphrase Obama)?
Ports that tanker ships dock at?
The problem is not transportation, it is lack of will power & organization and a surplus of bureaucracy.
Were the fuel terminals destroyed by Sandy?
(I don’t have TV, so I’ve not seen the details of the damages)
BTW Where we lived in Belize was close to the Mexican border. Gas is US $6+ in Belize and about $3.35 in Mexico. Lots of people purchase gas in Mexico, return to Belize and sell it from their back yards for $4 to $5 a gallon. 5 gallon buckets with built in spouts & nozzles are the measuring & delivery devices.
When I was in High School, guys would rent a Ryder stake truck, go out into the Georgia countryside and buy a farmer’s field full of watermelons. They’d then drive to NYC or NJ on Friday night, pull into Queens or someplace similar and sell watermelons from the back of the truck.
After truck rental costs, fuel, meals, and buying the watermelons, they still cleared several hundred dollars for the weekend trip. Good money back in the mid 1960’s in Georgia. I’m surprised that there are not a lot of entrepreneurs in states near NYC that are not doing the same right now with food, water, gas, generators, etc.
Helos are not just for plucking folks off of roofs. They are fantastic for dropping relief supplies, fuel blivets etc in places cut off by washed-away roads and downed bridges. They are also fantastic for medevac, which is ongoing. These ships even have mini-hospitals on board.
But Obama has not thought of this, and the Navy is probably out of his loop entirely.
I am putting my tinfoil hat on here.
How about Obama says to Christie, “If you want the boardwalk rebuilt by Memorial Day, you will take a photo op with me and tell everyone what a wonderful job I am doing? You don’t want to be another Texas, do you?”
With words like “revenge” and. “payback” I wouldnt put it past Obama.
Homeless people.
Hmmm, whatever happened to those billions of dollars worth of FEMA trailers, many of which were never used?
Homeless people.
Hmmm, whatever happened to those billions of dollars worth of FEMA trailers, many of which were never used?
The cliche is that pretenders talk strategy, achievers talk logistics.
Why Walmart tends to prosper.
My guess is that Walmart has plenty of water on hand.
Hear, hear!
The greater majority of the unavailability of gasoline is due to a lack of power rather than a shortage of the gasoline. I live in NJ and 2 days after the storm I travelled just 10 mikes to an area with power and spent all of 10 minutes in line before filling up.
In areas which were devastated such as Seaside, Long Beach Island and Atlantic City there is a problem getting to the gas stations because of roadway debris. In most areas it is simply no power to operate the pumps.
The greater majority of the unavailability of gasoline is due to a lack of power rather than a shortage of the gasoline. I live in NJ and 2 days after the storm I travelled just 10 mikes to an area with power and spent all of 10 minutes in line before filling up.
In areas which were devastated such as Seaside, Long Beach Island and Atlantic City there is a problem getting to the gas stations because of roadway debris. In most areas it is simply no power to operate the pumps.
An asbestos fiber was found near one of the trailers.
A decontamination center had to be built to clean them. When the decontamination center was ready the weather and rust had taken a toll and they had to be restored to be cleaned.
They have now been broken down into constituent parts and are stored in a has-mat Lv IV facility.
When Sen. Reid approves they will be encapsulated for deep burial.
My surmise is that they (the unused ones) are in staging areas along the Gulf/Florida coasts. And rightfully so. Hurricanes hitting the eastern seaboard are very rare by comparison. It'll take a few weeks to relocate them northwards.
The "used" ones were auctioned off a few years back.
I think some or all of them were made using formaldehyde, too. God forbid a homeless family should have to breathe that for a few weeks/months! Better that they should live out in the open. /s
Every house and trailer made for the previous 50 years had that stuff in the particle board, plywood, etc.
The FEMA trailers were given away, at least as many as they could find takers for.
The takers had to be public/non-profit entities that could meet a silly standard (as if it were better for the trailers to go to Big Bird than to let an ice fisherman have one).
My little hometown got one for their marina and also for their little one-strip ‘airport’. I think they had to drive from North Dakota to pick ‘em up.
Legend has it that a fresh tomato has more formaldehyde than MDF (medium density fiberboard) by weight!
http://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/whatsnew/whatsnew_fa/files/formaldehyde.pdf
Foods Known to Contain Naturally Occurring (more at link)Formaldehyde
Mg/Kg Fruits and Vegetables Apple 6.3-22.3 Banana 16.3 Cauliflower 26.9 Pear 38.7-60 Shiitake mushroom (dried / raw) 100-406 / 6-54.4 Meat and Meat Products Beef, pork, mutton and poultry meat 2.5-20 Seafood Cod 4.6-34 Fish ball 6.8 Crustacean 1-98 Bombay-duck (fresh) ≦140
Why don't the gas stations have generators that draw on their big tanks and power their pumps? The only excuse I can think of is that the added cost would either cut into their narrow profit margin or require them to raise gas prices above their non-generator competition. I don't want a government mandate, but how about cutting a penny or so off the state or federal gas taxes for generator backed up stations??? Depending on the size of the cut you'd either get just enough generator for the pumps and cash register or generators large enough to power their minimarts, etc.
Good question. Could be a law prohibiting electrical devices like generators being used to pump a volitale fluid such s gasoline.
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