Posted on 08/01/2021 7:32:42 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Is there something more to this story? How does an airport run out of fuel, on an island where many people with names like Kennedy and Kerry hang out (though I think Kerry sold his place recently)?
There once was a pilot from Nantucket,,,
There’s one in every crowd. Thank you for renewing my faith in humanity.
I care about this as much as rich people care about my problems.
So who all would be flying private planes to Nantucket?
Money.
If one is not I to pay transportation cost, one will not get supplies greater than contacted.
Pay the money, the suppliers would find a way to deliver. Even if it means docking a fuel barge at the island.
The folks with private jets who want you to walk 20 miles to work instead of driving. And don't forget to turn off your air conditioning when it gets over 90.
Good! The jets are bigger than the island and would cause it to capsize ...
You hire people who are woke rather than people who can keep track of fuel in and out, place timely orders and plan extra for contingencies, like other outfits who went for woke over competence.
It is probably just an indication of how much money elite liberals have accumulated over the course of the pandemic. They have so much money that taking their own jet to Nantucket is now common, instead of flying over in a commercial plane, or a smaller prop plane running on av-gas. Of course on the serfs ride on the ferry.
Truckers have been choked off. That last mile is almost always via truck.
Helen, Brian, and Joe won’t be happy about this.
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.
ok, now that is funny.
*Inside joke from 1999.
Shipping issues.
MAJOR shipping issues.
With the worldwide lockdown ships ended up getting stuck in various ports for months on end. 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) we started shipping back up out of order - so supplies aren’t where they need to be, let alone component parts for assemblies (see Computer Chips).
On top of that, theres a worldwide container shortage where containers are piling up in some docks that have no supply and other docks have NO containers where some docks are completely full and ready to be loaded.
So you’re ending up with shortfalls everywhere. Here with oil, Taco Bell with food supply issues, computer chip shortage, etc;
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/up-temporarily-stopping-eastbound-container-service-to-chicago
Container ships, which also carry fuel are
I don't know about Nantucket's airport, but the ferry system for most islands book months in advance. I wonder if the same is true for private airplanes landing in Nantucket. If so, then there is NO excuse for running low/out of fuel...the supply and demand isn't so random.
Keep the world shut down long enough and eventually you’ll run out of a lot more than jet fuel.
As I wrote elsewhere, for a place like Nantucket airport where - I presume - the incoming flights are pretty scheduled (even the private ones), then there shouldn't be too much variation in supply and demand. That's why this is so unusual.
I never heard of an airport running out of fuel. Especially one catering to high-end politicians and other losers.
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