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In Union, N.J., the problem was starkly highlighted on Thursday when lines of cars waiting for gas at a Sunoco ran in three directions: a mile-long line up the Garden State Parkway, a half-mile line along Vauxhall Road, and another, including a fleet of mail trucks that needed to refuel before resuming their rounds, snaking through a back entrance. The scene was being replayed across the state as drivers waited in lines that ran hundreds of vehicles deep, requiring state troopers and local police officers to protect against exploding tempers.
(Wouldn't it make more sense to either walk or STAY THE FUCK HOME FOR A FEW DAYS?)
“I’ve been pumping gas for 36 hours; I pumped 17,000 gallons,” said Abhishek Soni, the owner of an Exxon in Montclair, where disputes in the line Wednesday night had become so heated that Mr. Soni called the police and turned off the pumps for 45 minutes to restore calm. “My nose, my mouth is bleeding from the fumes. The fighting just makes it worse.”
(Proving: People will never learn and we are doomed. Almighty dollar, the terrorist wins.)
On Friday, the Queens district attorney’s office said a St. Albans man had been arrested after he pointed a pistol at a motorist who complained when he tried to cut a line at a gas station. The man, Sean M. Bailey, 35, was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree menacing.
Mr. Bailey tried to pull his BMW ahead of another motorist on a gas line on Astoria Boulevard early on Thursday, the district attorney’s office said. When the motorist complained, the district attorney’s office said, Mr. Bailey pointed a gun at him and said, “If you don’t pull back, you’re not getting gas tonight.”
(Asshole)The death toll in New York City rose to 38, as rescuers continued to discover bodies while combing through coastal wreckage. Among them were the bodies of two boys, 2 and 4, who had been torn from their mother by raging floodwaters on Staten Island on Monday night.
(This is what should be concerning people, not GASOLINE!!)
Politicians were scrambling Thursday to increase the supply of fuel — the Port of New York and New Jersey opened just enough to allow boats carrying gas to move, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey waived restrictions that make it harder for stations to buy gas from out-of-state suppliers. Mr. Christie’s office had warned that price gougers would be prosecuted, but drivers were reporting that some stations were charging more than $4 a gallon, even though the state had set gas prices at $3.59 on the highways last week.
(Mercenary scumbags.)
...Jason Brown, 25, of St. Albans, Queens, learned there might be gas at a BP station two miles away in Valley Stream, Nassau County. He walked there lugging a five-gallon Igloo cooler hoping to fill it with gas for his car — only to find a line stretching a quarter-mile along Sunrise Highway. When the generator pumping the gas failed, the crowd erupted into fights and police officers were called in to close the station.
(...and this, boys and girls, is why we DO need police and government regulation. Hate to say it, too, but: People can not be trusted to behave in an adult manner. Also, people are so much in DENIAL they think that two minutes after a HURRICANE they can just go about life as if nothing at all happened, and then they flip out in a temper tantrum when they can't. Sickening, immature dolts. Cars should just be outlawed. At the very least, since people are not exercising common sense, people should be required to stay out of their cars unless a valid excuse deems travel by car necessary.)
“I’m trying to get gas for my family,” Mr. B___ said. “Everywhere you go, it’s either a riot or there’s no gas.”
(Gas for my family? I remember learning the basic needs in grade school and it was something like: food, shelter, love or community...clothing, and, uh, no, gasoline was not on the list.)
The lines themselves only exacerbated the problem; reports in the local media provoked drivers to buy gasoline before stations ran out. Some spent what fuel they had searching for more and could be seen pushing vehicles toward relief.
(My sympathy for those who really needed to get someplace too far to walk. The rest of you lazy ass sonsabitches, I just shake my head. Believe me, I know people who idiotically went out and drove when there was no need to do so. I am not speculating.)
“I just want to have it, because you don’t know how long this is going to last,” said Richard B____, waiting in the half-mile line at the Sunoco in Union with a tank that was three-quarters full.
(Doesn't that waste gas? Couldn't your time be better spent elsewhere? What if nobody could get to work? Everyone is gonna get fired? After a hurricane? There is water. You don't need a lot of food. WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING? Only in New York/New Jersey would there be mad traffic the day after a hurricane.)
“People are panicking,” said Jimmy Qawasmi, the owner of a Mobil in the Westchester County town of Mamaroneck.
Bloomfield Avenue, a traffic artery connecting several towns in Essex County, N.J., was unusually congested as drivers stopped to lean out their windows at every station: “You got gas?” Mr. Soni’s station in Montclair had received a delivery of 8,000 gallons at 4 p.m. Wednesday, but that had run out by 2:30 a.m. Thursday. A tanker truck passed by, prompting a cheer. “I’m empty!” the driver called out.
Up the road, a tanker turned into one gas station just down from where a crowd was waiting at another. The people waiting dashed across the street, only to see the tanker turn and go to the station where they had been waiting. The police were refusing to let the station open for three hours, but people were determined to hold out.
As Benito D____, holding two gas cans, said: “The wait is just going to be worse elsewhere.”
(Or you could have stayed home. God forbid you should run out of gas and then...what? Even if you had to go to the hospital, if people weren't being so SELFISH then the EMT vehicles would be surely stocked and ready. Right? what am I missing?)
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