What's causing gas shortages in the Northeast?

What's causing gas shortages in the Northeast?



Its very tiresome to hear the usual voices chanting "liberals, liberals"... The cause of the problem should be obvious, but just in case its not................

What's causing gas shortages in the Northeast?

(MoneyWatch) While the price of gas is dropping across the nation, acute shortages across storm-ravaged sections of New York and New Jersey have pushed the cost up in those areas. With abundant fuel supplies elsewhere, frustrated New York and New Jersey residents wonder why they are waiting in gas lines for hours, and how long is the shortage is going to last.

The reasons for the shortage are many -- gas stations with no power, flooded tanks, an inability of fuel trucks to reach stations, and of course the panic-induced run on supplies.


Aside from some scattered reports of gouging, the price of a gallon of gas in the New York metropolitan area is up by 3 cents to 7 cents. In the rest of the nation the price has dropped 7 cents in just the last week.

The price increase is due almost entirely to the number of retail outlets shutdown by superstorm Sandy.


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Even though the U.S. Energy Department reports 73 percent of gas stations in the New York metropolitan area had gasoline Sunday -- up from 62 percent on Nov. 3, that doesn't mean that they are all operational. The New Jersey Gasoline, Convenience, Automotive Association estimates that at least 75 percent of the state's gas stations were closed either because they had no gasoline, no power or both. You can go online to find stations that have gas -- for instance Hess lists all its stations and how much gas they have available

"There is a choke in the supply chain and the choke isn't in the amount of fuel that's in the region," says David Zahn, vice president of marketing for FuelQuest, which makes supply chain management software for the fuel industry. "It's the retail station -- if you don't have electricity you can't pump fuel."

Even stations with electricity are having difficulty staying supplied with gas because of damaged roads and difficulties coordinating deliveries from suppliers. Millions of gallons of gasoline are sitting in storage tanks, pipelines and tankers that can't unload their cargoes.


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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_1...the-northeast/

 

Lack of fuel.

 

Well-------------------like it or not it is the liberals that are in power in the northeast. Their lack of planning is almost criminal. They knew for at least a week that the hurricane was comming. The feds in the form of FEMA are to blame too. Why didnt these worthless big government b'crat station supplies in the area ahead of time. As far as gas goes these b'crat should have had generators stationed at gas stations to run the pumps.

But then we can alway blame Obama like the democrats blamed Bush!!!!!!

 

Can you read, or do you choose not to?

 

Some times I choose not to, as in this case. Why do you ask? Oh and... am I right or wrong?

 

Read your daily offering of the lapdog pro Obama lib media?

I read it but your source has no credibility.

 

Yep, one would expect that a mind as brilliant as Obama's would have foreseen issues with things like power outages, generating electricity, and the need for fuel to help things limp along while recovery efforts took place. Unfortunately, it took Chairman Obama FIVE DAYS to finally scratch his head and figure out they needed fuel in the path of destruction Sandy made.

Or maybe he was just too busy campaigning to give a (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

It's Bush's fault.

 

Well, Obama was caught completely by surprise by the violence of the Arab Spring in Libya.

But maybe that is because he didn't attend the national security briefings.

So it's not hard to imagine that he was completely ignorant about the possibility of a hurricane interrupting his re-election campaign.

 

Did you read the article?

My family was in Florida in 2005 when we had two hurricanes back to back.. It was miserable, but it wasn't anyone's FAULT. Welcome to the real world.

 

Haven't you gotten the memo? These hurricanes are caused by global warming, so they're the fault of capitalism and Republicans.

Furthermore, fault can and should certainly be found in how government responds to natural disasters. We are paying them trillions of dollars to handle things for us. And Obama taking FIVE DAYS to finally figure out fuel is an issue is completely unacceptable, and reeks of his incompetence.

 

Where does this nonsense about a week come from? Even with the computers you can't predict weather that far out. There are supplies on hand, the transportation system collapsed. How much power do you think it takes to operate a gas station? There aren't enough portable generators in the whole country to power the gas stations in one county here in New Jersey. Speaking of which we don't have a liberal Democratic governor here, we have Chris Christie, who had the sense and decency to not politicize this catastrophe. In fact he really stepped up and raised himself a lot in my eyes. He was constructive and pro-active, unlike some other people.

 

Excellent post.........

 

Ah...supply and demand.

So this would inexorably prove the left's punitive environmental policies
that restrict America's drilling and refining capacity
have a direct effect on gasoline prices, no?

 

LOLOLOL.. There are no supply shortages. This is temporary problem caused by Sandy.. Read the article.

Someday.. Americans will comprehend the relationship between ppb and increased exploration, drilling and production... but not today.

 

No matter how you spin it, liberals don't like fossil fuels. So, its partly their fault there isn't enough. End of story.

 

Are you kidding? "Liberals" don't drive cars, use electricity or petroleum derivatives?

Come on.. you can make more sense than that.

 

No, are you kidding me? There is a hell bent war against oil. This is why you libs think its a good idea to spend billion on an electric car that no one wants.

 

Yes, dear, there are.

If gasoline tanker trucks are restricted from accessing consumers, or consumer access to gasoline is interrupted by power outages
there is a supply shortage.

 

That is the silliest thing I have ever heard.. Look at the reality.

Oil production is up everywhere because the PPB is HIGH.

New rigs.. a run on petroleum engineering schools.. Do you think all those people in the US, Canada, Brazil etc are "Republicans"?

 

Read the article.. ..

 

Surely you aren't say that the liberal horde likes fossil fuels. Your statement just shows the stupidity of liberals who curse fossil fuels while depending on them every day of their lives.

There is nothing more important to holding onto our freedom than affordable fuel. Our national security is dependent on all sorts of fuel, from turning on the lights in defense plants to turning out the lights anywhere in the world with a B2.

 

And we want an electric car when Obama says energy will necessarily sky rocket under his cap and trade, right... lol How much will it take to charge that car after he's done with us!

 

I did....but I don't need to be told why interruptions in supply are causing price spikes.

just as I don't need to be told that the left's supply restricting war on conventional energy causes energy prices to "necessarily skyrocket"
.

 

And tell me, when are are without power, how do we charge our electric cars?