Posted on 05/04/2014 6:12:52 AM PDT by thackney
The government is establishing its first emergency reserves of gasoline to address future fuel disruptions in the New York City area and New England like those caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the Energy Department announced Friday.
The two reserves totaling 1 million gallons of gasoline will be stored in leased commercial terminals around New York Harbor and Boston, the Energy Department said. The $200 million project will be paid with proceeds from a sale of crude oil from the governments emergency reserves on the Gulf Coast. Official said they hope to have the new gasoline reserves in place by the end of summer, before the start of the 2014 hurricane season.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a conference call Friday with reporters that the facilities were part of a larger effort to prepare for the consequences of global warming and the effects of climate change we already see occurring at home.
The 2012 storm knocked out refineries, damaged terminals and left gasoline stations without power, leading to severe gasoline storages.
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They are not building anything. They are just taking existing commercial storage and paying for it to be reserved for their use.
Which means the same amount of “reserves” is being taken away from commercial use.
This is politics only, to claim they have done something. They are not actually helping anything.
Could it be that the government foresees a catastrophic event that may cause a Mad Max type of environment? Let’s see. A massive buildup of military equipment and ammo for local police and non-military agencies, gun registration in northeast states, NSA tracking of American citizens, IRS targeting of conservatives.....
Hmmm. What do they know?
The people in NYC are packed in like rats in a corn crib, let ‘em walk!
A couple solar panels and a wind mill or two and they can ride that filthy subway.
Bump!
It is the plan
The problem was much one of human behavior as supply and distribution. New York only began to solve the post-Sandy shortage/panic/gas line problem long after New Jersey had instituted it, and discontinued it because it worked and there were no longer any gas lines (odd-even license plates).
I don't want to see Chris Christie get the Republican nomination, but he's the reincarnation of Albert Einstein compared to New York's liberal doofuses.
And that's why it's dumb.
The trouble is that gasoline is a carefully refined product, and as such, is easily contaminated in such a way as to render it destructive to engines. And because one of its most common contaminants is water, this means that long term storage in tanks that can be eroded by water is problematic. Water tends to settle to the bottom of the tank.
My sentiments exactly
The gas shortages after Sandy were due to the power being out almost two weeks in some areas and the morons who live in NY not bothering to have a little extra fuel saved up. People in NYC and its surrounding suburbs have this arrogance about them that nothing will stop the subway from running or from Starbucks being opened.
This action is about more government control. Remember, the same government that gives you liberty can take it away.
,....and more so if it contains ethanol...which is hydroscopic
Stimulus for a few Blue states ?
You beat me to it and 1 million won’t go far.
I can practically hear the crazies screaming “durka, durka!”...
Enough to fill up 50,000 cars once. Must be the reserves for the elite.
Actually I was in NYC days after the "Sandy" storm and it was pretty much business as usual. You make it seem like the NYC people were cowering in fear and huddled in shelters waiting for the "gub'mint" to take charge.
Not so. The New Yorkers handled the adversity just fine. Sorry to throw some cold water on your contention that it was otherwise.
that thought crossed my mind too...Maybe fill the reserves with “real” gas....add the 10% ethanol to ruin it later.... on as as needed basis..
The anti-gouging laws made it unlikely any commercial enterprise would truck in gasoline from other states and charge a higher price to cover the cost of the transportation. So this is a typical government response to such. Can’t let market forces deal with it in liberal-land.
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