Gasoline rationing extended in New York until next Friday
Gasoline rationing in New York City which was scheduled to end on Monday has been extended through Friday, even as the gas station lines that prompted it have all but disappeared.
In announcing the decision, Mayor Michael Bloomberg noted the major travel week ahead at a time when 30% of gas stations remained closed because of the damages caused by hurricane Sandy.
In a statement, Bloomberg said that he was extending the rationing “to ensure we do not risk going back to the extreme lines we saw prior to the system being implemented”.
The 2012 version of gas rationing has been much less painful than the last time it was imposed in the whole of the United States amid the fuel shortages of the 1970s. Back then, rationing measures -- including odd-even, which restricts gas sales to cars with odd-numbered license plates on odd days and even-numbered license plates on even days -- stretched on for months and seemed to barely make a dent in the problem.
This time Hurricane Sandy created a temporary glitch in the regional supply line by cutting off power to gas stations and damaging a distribution network of ports and terminals that delivered gas to the pumps. They said that it should have been only a minor disruption because power was restored to stations and terminals were repaired. But it soon evolved into a crisis in part when drivers who were not used to being told they could not fill up when they wanted began to panic and started descending upon gas stations in droves.
“By perceiving a shortage, they actually created one,” said Awi Federgruen, a management professor at Columbia Business School.
Federgruen added that gas station owners who responded with their own form of ad hoc rationing -- such as setting a limit of 10 gallons per customer -- only reinforced the feeling that there was, in fact, a limited supply of fuel. That, he said, ultimately contributed to the long lines by forcing customers to come back for more gas and “doubling or tripling the volume of cars that need to be served.”
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I saw some pictures of the “megastorm”... we get as many trees down and fires in Mendoza during a stupid Zonda event. Talk about a country in decline, I bet in the 1950s they would have fixed all that in a week.
Are there even that many trees in Mendoza? (Not including the cultivated fruit trees).
Unlike you, TTT, I have travelled extensively in Argentina and the US. There is no comparison. Argentina is a beautiful country but has been underdeveloped, underfunded and neglected for decades. Despite your wish that Argentina is somehow on the rise and the US on the fall, it certainly does not look that way. You should get out in the world and see for yourself. It might widen your narrow mind.
There's millions of trees in Mendoza, and all are artificially planted. How about that.
You are talking about tens of thousands of trees over an area the size of the east coast of Buenos Aires province, not all in one little area. Furthermore that region of the world has a massive population density, so the man power is there. And since you just said how superior the USA is supposedly, you would think they would have the equipment ready to go.
No, there is no excuse for it to take a month to just axe through some trees with electric serruchos.
I give a slark how much you've travelled, I still will place my opinion and furthermore your opinions on Argentina are biased and in the real world of journalism and research no one would take them seriously unless it was a pro/con document, where two opposing sides were highlighted.
www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2012-08-13/highest-cheapest-gas-prices-by-country.html#slide10
The walking will do them a world of goodness,
think of the exercise..
20 yankeeboy “ and a few decades later we are exporting oil and nat gas . That is innovation!!”
Indeed Fred! :-))))))))))))))
en.mercopress.com/2012/11/17/after-dreadful-year-great-expectations-in-argentina-with-2012-13-soybean-crop#comments
shut up
Is what I call poor inefficiency, Americans necons just govern for the media like Macri.
As a real Yankee as Daddy Yankee will say...
How does she like the Gasoline...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNZQZEcszcM
Duro!... Duro..!
Give me more gasoline...
What is worse....small area gas lines from a natural disaster like a hurricane in NYC.......or national gas lines from poor economic management from a moron like kirchner?
“Argentina’s current predicament would be more comic than tragic if there were any sign of reason in the Casa Rosada presidential offices in Buenos Aires. ”
www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-08/argentine-protectionism-sees-cars-swapped-for-rice-olives-wine#p4
“Business owners who complain publicly may suffer the wrath of Fernández, who occasionally interrupts her nationally televised announcements to call out whiners. It would be a little like the American president using a State of the Union address to single out a Tucson hair salon owner for griping to the local paper about the White House’s China policy”
Poopy you are very funny, the link to the article that you have posted criticising Argentina if from Bloomberg.
The multimedia group owned by Michael Rubens Bloomberg the actual Mayor of New York City that cannot provide “Gasoline” to New Yorkers due to his incompetence.
Is not silly?
Next what?
Mr. Dracula criticising Argentina for not being vegetarian and eat meat?
You cannot close down any media group in US simply because your presidents are puppet of them and has not any power. All just follow the book wrote by the US and foreign plutocracy.
And that is the reason why you will be looking for a job in Tijuan in the next few years among other things...
That’s all poopy...
is your wife Isolde ready?
Let me know when I should look for work in Tijuana, you are seemingly in the know.
that's all dickhead
Thijuana never was so close...
May be slowly is moving to your city. You never know...
Oh! sorry I just confirmed that in Africa they have gasoline and don't have food stamps...
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