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Nov. 2, 2012 11:47pm Jason Howerton

New Jersey Counties Implement Gas Rationing System as Fuel Shortage Grips Northeast

MATAWAN, NJ – NOVEMBER 02: People line up to fill gas canisters at a Shell gas station on November 2, 2012 in Matawan, New Jersey. According to AAA, 60 % of gas stations in New Jersey are or were closed due to Superstorm Sandy. (Credit: Getty Images)

NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — The state of New Jersey on Friday announced plans to implement a gas-rationing system in 12 counties in the northern part of the state.

Gov. Chris Christie ordered the rationing to help ease fuel shortages and long lines at gas stations. Starting at noon Saturday, residents with license plates ending in an even number will be able to buy gas only on even-numbered days. Those with plates ending in an odd number can purchase gas on odd-numbered days.

And when it came to fuel supplies and patience, the New York metro area was running close to empty Friday.

From storm-scarred New Jersey to parts of Connecticut, a widespread lack of gasoline or electricity to pump it brought grousing, gridlock and worse, compounding frustrations as millions of Americans struggled to return to normal days after Superstorm Sandy. A man pulled a gun in one gas-line fracas that led to an arrest.

Lines of cars, and in many places queues of people on foot carrying bright red jerry cans for generators, waited for hours for the precious fuel. And those were the lucky ones. Other customers gave up after finding only closed stations or dry pumps marked with yellow tape or “No Gas” signs.

“EMPTY!” declared the red-type headline dominating the New York Daily News’ front page.

“I drove around last night and couldn’t find anything,” said a relieved Kwabena Sintim-Misa as he finally prepared to fill up Friday morning in Fort Lee, N.J., near the George Washington Bridge, where the wait in line lasted three hours.

Arlend Pierre-Louis of Elmont, on Long Island, said he awoke at 4:30 a.m. to try to get gas.

When he finally found some – “the one working pump in Elmont” – the line was so long he gave up and returned to his home, which still has no light or hot water.

At a Hess gas station in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, the 10-block line caused confusion among passing drivers.

“There’s been a little screaming, a little yelling. And I saw one guy banging on the hood of a car,” said Vince Levine, who got in line in his van at 5 a.m. and was still waiting at 8 a.m. “But mostly it’s been OK.”

While the snaking lines and frayed nerves revived memories for some of the crippling Arab oil embargo of the 1970s, a cabdriver stuck in a 17-block line at a Manhattan station remained philosophical.

“I don’t blame anybody,” said Harum Prince. “God, he knows why he brought this storm.”

Many tried to heed Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s admonition to “have some patience” as the stricken metro area recovers from the unprecedented storm that upended daily life with power outages, food shortages and other frustrations besides lack of fuel.

But tempers boiled over in some places.

Arguments in gas station queues in New York’s Queens borough and in Pelham led to arrests, authorities said. In the first case, a man pulled a gun, and in the second police confiscated a box cutter. No one was hurt.

NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 02: Residents stand in line for fuel at a gas station on November 2, 2012 in the Staten Island borough of New York City. Fuel for cars and generators was scarce and hundreds of thousands of people in Staten Island remained without electricity in areas affected by superstorm Sandy. (Credit: Getty Images)

Power outages that lingered across the region prevented some gas stations that had fuel from being able to pump it, officials said. But fuel supplies themselves were badly disrupted by the storm.

Sandy damaged ports that accept fuel tankers and flooded underground equipment that sends fuel through pipelines. Without power, fuel terminals can’t pump gasoline onto tanker trucks, and gas stations can’t pump fuel into customers’ cars.

The Port of New York and New Jersey was slowly starting to accept tankers, but some cargo was being diverted to the Port of Virginia. Federal requirements for low-smog gasoline have been lifted, and fuel trucks are on their way to the area.

Officials said they were working to speed the flow of fuel.

On Friday, the Obama administration ordered the purchase of up to 12 million gallons of unleaded fuel and up to 10 million gallons of diesel fuel for distribution in areas affected by the storm to supplement private-sector efforts. It will be transported by tanker trucks to New York, New Jersey and other damaged communities.

In addition, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano temporarily waived a maritime rule to allow foreign oil tankers coming from the Gulf of Mexico to enter Northeastern ports. The action, she said, would “remove a potential obstacle to bringing additional fuel to the storm-damaged region.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, meanwhile, signed an executive order waiving the state’s requirement that fuel tankers register and pay a tax before unloading.

Tankers, he said Friday, are now making “great progress” delivering fuel to distribution centers.

“No reason to panic,” the governor urged.

Bloomberg told reporters Friday that the gas-supply issues “are starting to be alleviated” through the temporary regulatory fixes and other developments. He noted a plan is in place to ensure that police, fire and other emergency vehicles have the fuel they need. Buses, including school buses, are also a priority.

“But the bottom line is that the gasoline system is getting back on its feet,” he said.

Delays due to storms, the mayor added, “have happened before. They spring up very quickly, and they go away very quickly. We basically have a supply system – as it comes in we use it. If it stops coming in, we’re in trouble.”

But keeping perspective could be a challenge as the gas lines lengthened.

Many service centers along the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike were so full that cars trying to pass at highway speeds sometimes had to swerve to avoid them.

In Connecticut, traffic jams created by New Yorkers exiting from Interstate 95 to take advantage of the stations that were open were “making it difficult for everybody,” said Greenwich police Lt. Kraig Gray.

Police monitored lines in many places, including a Hess station in Fort Lee, N.J., where an officer was seen ordering a man out of line after sneaking in from a side street.

Among those waiting there, Kenneth Kelly of Englewood Cliffs took it all in stride.

“It ain’t that bad. I could be in Queens,” he said, referring to the confrontations there. “I’ve seen a lot of bad in my life, people getting sick and things like that. This is what I call an inconvenience. Now, losing something like a house, that would be bad.”

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Comments (80)

rennyangel
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:52am
If people can get to South Jersey, Hammonton, Berlin, Winslow, there are no gas lines here, the electriticty has never been out, and the trees still have their foliage. It does not look as if a storm even went through here.

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:04pm
  But that doesn’t make a story big enough to ignore Obama’s Libya scandal.
  
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Flashydave
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:51am
Any gas station owner who can’t get a simple generator and wire it into their electric panel to power their pumps needs to lose the business they could be getting during this emergency. And give up all your ideas which don’t seem to be politically correct. Simply ignoring problems of this nature just keeps them from being solved by trying to ignore them. Calling people racist who point out Obama’s not understanding his daughter’s 7th grade math isn’t racist, its his own words and why he doesn’t understand enough about economics to get our economy going. He only understands community organizing. As a Southerner, I can’t stand his constant condeceision into southern dialect for his speeched. I keep expection “MF” to pop out of his mouth as his retoric is so inflammitory and divisive. True leaders don’t divide people. They rally them together.

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jamestoms
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:20am
Hey Obama says you guys got clean wind power, man up!

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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:45am
  This can’t be happening after Obama and Christie were showing each other so much man love on the NJ beach!
  
  Obama promised that the level of the oceans would recede. I really want to believe the Sewer Rat-in-Chief.
  
  Point me toward the light and the truth according to Obama / Biden / Pelosi / Reid / Van Jones / Big Sis / et al. I went to institutions of higher learning. How could the professors not have prepared me to receive THE MESSAGE from the “Anointed One?”
  
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- Gary_K
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:15am
  John…I demand you apologize to sewer rats…there is no need to get nasty…. :)
  
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- Gregb
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:28am
  wind power, solar power, algae, battery power… according to obama we do not need fossil fuels like gas and coal. oh wait, you probably need gas to run your generator so that you can charge up the batteries in your chevy volt.
  
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spikebu
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:40am
Imagine our enemies detonating ( or firing? I don’t know) an EMP. This is close to what it would look like.

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- Jenasus
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:36am
  That is probably what it will take to wake America up.
  
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- spikebu
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 4:42am
  I think we are roused.
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:52am
  spikebu, couldn’t happen. Al Qaeda has been decimated and Iran isn’t a threat. After Obama’s reset with Russia and apology tour, we no longer have enemies who who do such a thing. Rest easily.
  
  We just need to spend trillions to combat that man-made global warming. Then we won’t even have natural disasters to worry about.
  
  Yes sir, utopia is right around the corner.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:03am
Since there isn’t any shortage of gas, the problem is electrical power to pump it. FEMA needs to provide generators to every gas station in the area. An Obama – Christie hug does nothing to improve the situation.

What needs to be done is to uninstall Obama from Office. All of Obama’s policies have damaged American interests. We are NOT a Muslim Nation. All of our Laws are based on Judea/Christian values, even for those who believe religions are a joke. Barack Obama is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, and if you don’t see that, you are delusional. All of his decisions have been based on what’s good for the Muslim World. Islam is the greatest evil ever forced on the Western World.

Muslims can take their Sharia and shove it up their rears.

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Jenasus
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:58am
Earthquakes will be hitting the NE next along with California. Be prepared.

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- spikebu
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:44am
  I watch the haarpstatus, too. The Sandy thing was amazing!
  
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- Jenasus
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:24am
  Did you see the you tube video that tracked the storm and showed the chem trails and chem bombs in it?
  I think they were trying to destroy the Statue of Liberty too.
  
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- spikebu
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 4:36am
  No, I didn’t. Chem trailing…I now have asthma, all three of my kids have asthma. They didn’t have it at birth. Neither did I. I got it at 45. My neighbors are 85 and 72. They now have asthma. They didn’t have it 10 years ago. When I was a kid, there was one kid in school with asthma. Now, everybody has it. The “new” inhalers don’t work, at all.
  
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RazorsEdge
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:41am
The only reason there are gas lines is that the price is artificially low. Get rid of the gouging laws, and supply and demand would again be in balance.

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- spikebu
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:47am
  Last I saw on price was 6 bucks/gallon. That was around noon my time, so 3pm eastern.
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:20am
The BEST RATIONING IS TO LET THE PRICE FLOAT! Then, people could decide whether the price is worth it and the providers would be incentivized to make whatever arrangements are necessary to get fuel supplies into those locations that need it the most! Every contractor with a fuel truck could get into the picture and drive from neighborhood to neighborhood, like an ice cream truck, selling 5-gallon quantities of generator fuel, getting those people out of the gas lines! They could also provide a roving AAA-like fuel service as they drive to and from the neighborhoods they serve.

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Jenasus
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:50am
People really need to get off the gas and ride a bike, walk, take the bus, subway, train or plane.
Buy a solar panel and get your electricity for free. You can also get free cable TV if you are in sight of a tower.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:55am
  Jenasus really needs to get off of free posting as a troll here….
  
  Oh wait… he just can’t help himself….
  
  Anything free is fair game right Jenasus…..
  
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- Jenasus
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:46am
  The best things in life are free. Ben Franklin said a penny saved is a penny earned.
  I guess it just depends on what you want to spend your money on that you can get for free,
  I also get free broadband internet service.
  
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- Jenasus
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:55am
  One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:15am
  Off topis, sorry
  
  @ Monk
  
  I gave you the wrong link, damn it. This is the one
  
  http://www.kaleme.com/1391/08/05/klm-117643/
  
  It refers to “Ms. Valerie Zhart supervisor, advisor to Obama, the President of America”
  
  This is the bit that I think might be a mistranslation for Valerie Jarret.
  
  What do you think?
  
  It’s to do with the talks in Qatar
  
  Cheers, mate
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:37am
  @ The Monk
  
  Let me tell you what I was trying to figure out.
  
  In the secret negotiations between Iran and the US in Qatar, it was planned to get Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program, if only for a few weeks, in order to help Mr Obama’s re-election chances.
  
  http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/ali-akbar-velayati/
  
  The woman’s identity is being kept secret.
  
  In this item, which obviously needs to be translated,
  
  http://www.kaleme.com/1391/08/05/klm-117643/
  
  the woman is identied as “Ms. Valerie Zhart supervisor, advisor to Obama, the President of America”.
  
  So what I’m trying to figure out is if “Valerie Zhart” is a mistranslation for “Valerie Jarret” because, as you know, machine translation can have trouble with names.
  
  Anyway, it has all gone past now. Just letting you know what the story was.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:59am
  Then there’s this bit.
  
  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010171941
  
  My point being that Mr Obama seemed to be quite willing to risk nuclear conflict in order to be re-elected. That may be a bit of a stretch, but that’s the way that I read it.
  
  If “the woman” was in fact Valerie Jarret, that adds credibility to the hypothesis. It also points to the Obama adminstration’s position in the Benghazi debacle.
  
  Many more facts needed, obviously.
  
  Anyway…
  
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- spikebu
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 5:29am
  @kiwi…Those articles don’t leave much room for doubt. How many Valerie’s are advisers to the President? This is treason. Crap. Crap.
  
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- spikebu
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 5:50am
  And again…CRAP!
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:48am
The New Jersey Doughboy.All he had to was contact oil companies way BEFORE the friggin hurricane and they would have had loaded fuel tankers at the ready and willing to deliver immediately after Sandy passed.
Instead,like a typical clueless Liberal,he did what most Libs do.Cry to Daddy(the Feds)

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- Salamander
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:29am
  Obummer probably thinks that fuel just shows up like magic! Time to deprive him of his flying carpet!
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:04am
  “New Yorkers exiting from Interstate 95 to take advantage of the stations that were open were making it difficult for everybody,” said Greenwich police Lt. Kraig Gray.
  
  lol.. i bet they were. Greenwich, CT is one of the richest towns in the world… It’s over 88% white, the wealth value there is over $430,000 PER PERSON, … & the MEDIAN home value is $1.6 million!
  Ha ha ha… How could thousands of people pouring in from NYC possibly “make things difficult”?
  
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:47am
But the good news on the democrat channels is Gas prices are down 6-8 cents a gallon, like it’s some sort of relief. Pathetic how they manipulate.

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normbal
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:39am
Friday, October 26, I watched yet another of The Weather Channel reports on hurricane Sandy, went to the National Hurricane Center website and looked at the storm track predictions.

I then drove my truck down to the local gas station and filled four, 5-gallon gas cans and one 2.5 gallon can, and my truck. I got home, added fuel stabilizer to the cans and put them out back in my shed with the four 5-gallon jerry cans I had stored six months earlier. I made sure my water filtration system was handy, tested my generators, collected the generators and all the cords and power strips I would need to keep the house running, made sure there was enough firewood and kindling handy for the firebox, and had a beer.

Food? We have enough on hand for 4-5 years if necessary. Takes up most of one room in the basement.

Preparation. Reasonable precautions in times such as these, being what they are.

And what are they, you may ask?

Indifferent.

“The Gods favor the most prepared Army.” Greek General after the battle of Marathon, circa 490 BC.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:49am
  you know it.
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:32am
Hey, FEMA, why doesn’t our government provide a tax incentive for gas stations to provide for their own power needs? If one in six took advantage of such an offer, there would be no gas lines! A really small generator can run a gas pump! Payment might be an issue, but scrip could be written, say with a signature and driver’s license number and DMV can get involved in settlements if necessary, AFTER the emergency! The scrip approach would discourage gangs of thieves from robbing the gas stations. One requirement with backup power might be theft-proof safes to hold cash, rather than a cash register. Cash gets deposited in one safe and scrip and cash receipts get deposited in another. It can be sorted out, with police protection if necessary after the crisis. Credit transactions could be sent on a store-and-forward basis, with drivers license or voter ID used to attest to the card transaction and provide recourse if the card proves to be invalid.

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- QuincySmith
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:38am
  Hey FEMA, thought Katrina would have taught you something. Where is Browine?
  
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possom
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:24am
That’s whatcha get for not being prepared!

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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:37am
  Exactly!
  
  All the electronic gizmos and iPhone apps did them all a lot of good when the SHTF, didn’t it?
  
  This was a blessing in disguise for us the West Coast. Will we listen? Nope.
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:21am
Hey, governments: the old adage ‘Lead, follow or get out of the way!’ applies, except you can’t lead and you can’t follow, so get out of the way!

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- 1947
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:29am
  Why should Obama support us, he’s got your early VOTE……like it’s been said “you’re on your own….
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:18am
Why is OUR government buying fuel??? They simply need to unburden the market of regulation and the fuel will flow to where it is needed!

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:24am
  Which is exactly why Obama will never do it; this is his ultimate ‘never waste a good emergency’ to engineer social unrest or cause it to happen and then impose nation wide martial law.
  
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- 1947
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:32am
  Why to go “SNOWLEOPARD” you are seeing his PLAN for the American people…….
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:15am
the pictures you see here are why we fight wars in the middle east

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 11:12am
  Speaking of the pictures here, why are gas cans always red?
  
  Someone should start selling green gas cans so people psychologically associate gas with “going-green”
  
  The environmentalists have already fooled everyone into thinking “green” = “good” so why not fool them back?
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:15am
If I were governor of New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, I’d suspend ALL regulation of business or pricing or emergency powers and encourage EVERY contractor with a fuel truck to visit my state, charge what they can get and return as much as they like for the next 30 days! I’d do the same with EVERY food truck within 500 miles–heck, EVERY FOOD TRUCK IN THE COUNTRY! I’d allow scrip, IOU’s or whatever medium of exchange or obligation people need to conduct essential business and I’d permit EVERY vendor the opportunity to deduct losses as an additional offset to their business taxes, with a 3-year carryforward! These actions would result in IMMEDIATE response from those most able to respond! There is no better way to distribute limited goods and services than to let prices float, whether it is a windfall for a gas station that just tanked up the day before (they’ll have to replenish their supplies at higher prices later) or an incentive for a fuel, food, energy or shelter supplier to send truckloads from 500-1,000 miles away, with extra fees for licences, overtime and a reduced ability to serve their local markets during the time of crisis for the Northeast!

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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:12am
Wheres the Government when you need em. 100% slower response by obama than Bush on Katrina.

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- Al J Zira
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:38am
  I’d say that if we changed our thinking especially in regards to natural disasters, we would find we didn’t need the government at all or on a limited basis at best.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:51am
  Add your comments
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:53am
  What about a man-made disaster named obama?
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:07am
Listening to Obama spew his typical TeleprompterHorseS4!T!!!

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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:18am
  I hear obama even uses the teleprompter when he’s got Mooch bent over the couch.
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:39am
  That’s real classy, Proverb.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:54am
  Your right J-Z, I’m just in a bad mood tonight.
  
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- Salamander
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:27am
  Ha-ha! Did you see her ‘pooch’ in the pix at her visit to Virginia Union University? She’s got to get off those ‘Liberty Fries’ and start eating some of those 800 calorie school lunches she has decided ‘fits all’! (Surely, it doesn’t fit the football team, although it might serve the Library Club participants well. And, she surely isn’t eating on that program, if her waistline is any indication!)
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:57am
  Salamander, I agree the mooch is packing on the pounds and that big a$$ is getting bigger. But democrats are “do as I say, not as I do”. We’ll just call her Big Boned to keep the PC’s happy.
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:06am
FEMA? Federal Election Management Administration?

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70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:05am
I think its great when people get what they voted for. Higher gas prices and long lines are what lib’s have been calling for. They must be ecstatic throwing a huge green energy party. I hope it stays this weay fore them. I just want people to be happy and to get what they want.

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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:13am
  can’t argue with the truth 70′s good post!
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:22am
  @ 70′s kids
  
  I think its great when people get what they voted for. Higher gas prices and long lines are what lib’s have been calling for.
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  I agree. Another example would be Obama making it hard on coal produced electricity, because he NECESSARILY wants electricity to skyrocket – just in time for electric cars !
  
  Oh, the pain… :)
  
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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:04am
Hey Virginia! Maybe The Old Dominion should take a look at why the ONLY refinery in the state closed a coupe of years ago! Maybe some tax incentives are warranted to re-open this alternate fuel supply, so Virginia doesn’t find itself suffering with expensive out-of-state fuel supplies!

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Salamander
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:01am
Hey, New Jersey, wake up! Your governor calls the governor of Maryland and offers to indemnify any trucker hauling gasoline or diesel fuel to New Jersey who hasn’t secured the proper permits or business licenses! Or, perhaps, he could offer a ‘barter’ arrangement, pledging New Jersey’s support should Maryland suffer a similar disaster! Also, it is incredibly self-serving for the unions to insist that non-union labor crews join their ranks in order to ‘volunteer’ their services! (If the pay is less than union-scale, it is volunteer work! Why would you turn it down? When you go to non-union states, I’ll bet you keep your wages, even though you are operating in a different market! With your ranks way down, you have more to lose by not allowing non-union workers into your States than they have to lose by suffereing your refusal to work in their States! Too bad, so sad! I hope the voters take it to the ballot box!)

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- Al J Zira
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 12:43am
  It will never happen. The voters in this state are union loving, government worshiping troglodytes. It’s all things government all the time.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:57pm
Blame obama starting with the Gulf oil crises!!

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