[foundedonpurpose]

If the power is out, where are they going to get the fuel from? Modern gas pumps need electricity. This is going to be a bigger disaster due to incompetence.

[American Constitutionalist]

" If the power is out, where are they going to get the fuel from? Modern gas pumps need electricity. This is going to be a bigger disaster due to incompetence. "

YUUUUP !

And ? the only way to get any kind of temporary electrical power in New York city will be by gasoline or diesel generators...
Hey LIBS ? how's your Chevy Volts doing now in this storm ? or all your so called " renewable fuels " ?
Electric cars don't do well without any electrical power.

Let's see ? a shortage of fuel for those generators and the high cost of that fuel will only make that shortage worse.

HEY NBC ? ABC ? CNN ? CBS ? How's it feel now ? no fuel for your generators and the high cost of that fuel ?
Yeah, Obama nixed the Keystone Pipeline project and banned any new drilling on federal lands.

HEY LIBS ? HOW'S THAT GREEN FUELS WORKING OUT FOR YOU NOW IN NEW YORK CITY ?

GASOLINE AND DIESEL IS THE KING NOW BABY !

[Paul R.]

If the power is out, where are they going to get the fuel from? Modern gas pumps need electricity. This is going to be a bigger disaster due to incompetence.

I can't disagree about that last -- it's usually the case. Those Japanese reactors in the tsunami are a perfect example.

As for fuel, though, one would surely hope the Nat'l Guard would have some gravity feed or manual pump type fuel tanks.

[matt04]

Assuming is is diesel, they could pump from a delivery truck similar to the ones used to to fill machinery on construction sites to the containers on site.

[dfwgator]

If the power is out, where are they going to get the fuel from? Modern gas pumps need electricity. This is going to be a bigger disaster due to incompetence.

The "Technology Trap". The fragile threads that keep society together get strained more and more with each passing day.