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.
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.
USAF tankers carry jet fuel which is basically kerosene. I don’t think the air force is going to let anyone put gasoline in them.