Nantucket Airport Runs Out of Jet Fuel (how does THAT happen?)

Nantucket Magazine ^ | August 1, 2021 | Jason Graziadei

[Reno89519]

Incompetence. But if I recall, isn’t that the airport a Kennedy flew out of and crashed—pilot error—so maybe it is a local requirement.

[DoodleBob]

But Nantucket? I figured that’d be the last place to run out of fuel. They’d rather choke off one of them right-wing holiday spots, like Branson, MO.

[bwest]

Sandpiper Air will be grounded.

[bwest]

One of my favorites.

[DoodleBob]

That was Martha's Vineyard airport, on a neighboring island.

On the image below, Nantucket is to the right of Martha's Vineyard.

[ImpBill]

"I care about this as much as rich people care about my problems."

And folks we have a Winner!

[al baby]

That chick was so delicious

[Mears]

Bump

[DoodleBob]

I have zero concern about the impacted folks on Nantucket. Normal people take the ferry.

The interest is around supply lines, supply and demand management, and how an island that caters to high net worth Democrats, could run out of fuel. I mean, it's not like they're flying Tesla planes, and it's not like they'd rather starve the midwest of fuel before Nantucket.

[null and void]

Thanks to efficiency standards and the ever popular “zero inventory” model (where little to no inventory is ever kept on hand - you just deliver what’s needed ASAP)

Also known as JIT, Just-In-Time inventory.

Or as I've always called it, OSWO, Oh-Shucks-We're-Out.

[qaz123]

That was his wife’s place.

The Kennedy’s do the Vineyard.

But to your point, the amount of wealth on that island is no joke. These are the kind of people that can get a KC-135 to land with fuel and it wouldn’t be a blip on their bank account.

Something ain’t kosher.

[ThunderSleeps]

There once was a pilot from Nantucket
who’s G-6 ran low as a bucket
he said with a grin, as he topped off to min
if my G-6 was a Cessna I’d say xxxx-it.

[metmom]

This is where they want us.

Unable to travel anywhere.

[Hootowl99]

Actually, a fuel barge makes a lot of sense. It would be cheaper transportation and might enable a lower purchase cost for fuel. How it would likely be arranged in peak times like summer is not one but two barges with a tug delivering a full barge and picking up the empty for refilling.

Dumb airport manager, IMHO.

[wingnut1971]

Great idea, but I think the nimby’s Would flip over a fuel terminal on waterfront property.

[MrLucky1966]

The epidemic shutdown, and the recovery from it, have been completely problematic in a just-in-time world. (Anyone remember oil futures prices turning negative in late April of 2020?) It is a credit to those greedy oil companies, etc. that things have gone as well as they have, given all the unprecedented stuff we have seen since February of last year.

I've been noticing this too in the last year, especially more recently. I was going to my last Door Dash order last night and when I got to the Subway, they told me the order was cancelled because "they ran out of bread." I never heard of a Subway or any other place like that running out and even the kid (OK, I'm 55 so my age is showing)running the store was perplexed. I've also seen where my selection of cat food is limited at times and so on. Something is not kosher here.

[joma89]

This is just a small example of what socialist rot will do to a society. Never forget the empty shelved in stores of the soviet union.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Oh My!

No fuel for all those private mega-jets belonging to the “Save Gaia” leftist hypocrits...

[xp38]

Agreed. Since covid began stuff on occasion has been in short supply. It eventually seems to correct itself. Whether the dims like it or not gas and oil are big issues since almost everything depends on it. If the GOP were smart they could use the issue. Big if.

[gunnut]

Oh those poor millionaires and billionaires that won’t be able to fuel their private jets. I feel for them.