Looks like the long lines at gas stations are over! (Hempstead: live, prices)
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Most of the gas stations where I live still have no gas or a limited amount of gas. The ones that are open did not have long lines today. I wonder how long this will last for.
I think so to, I was in copiague today and both stations at Strong and Hoffman had gas. The self service Valaro station had about 6 cars waiting, the full service station across the street had no line at all. Both were charging $4.17 for regular.
I do have to commend Hess for keeping there low prices but I think they have a distrubtion system that the other stations do not have and that may be the reason for the lower prices.
Queens still has long lines..and I just drove by a gas station on Woodhaven Blvd with cars camped out at the pumps waiting for a fuel delivery. I'm not sure why the gas lines are shorter on the Island but in Queens, the lines were still as long today.
Queens still has long lines..and I just drove by a gas station on Woodhaven Blvd with cars camped out at the pumps waiting for a fuel delivery. I'm not sure why the gas lines are shorter on the Island but in Queens, the lines were still as long today.
Today was "night and day" from the last week. Even yesterday I got gas at 2PM on 110/conklin in Farmingdale (hugely busy intersection) with zero line (I drove past it initially and just assumed it was out, as I've gotten used to doing). Drove around a lot today and saw a BUNCH of open stations with no lines. The was all in Suffolk--the one station I saw in Nassau did have a line, but it looked like maybe 1/2 hour as opposed to five years. It's just weird because 48 hours earlier a functioning gas station with no line = a myth.
Much smaller lines and by 2pm yesterday, there was no line at one Citgo on Sunrise. Today is my day so I am going to wait until the afternoon as it seems everyone rushes in the morning to go fill up.
Seeing less of the gas can lines too so I guess more people have their power back on. Doesn't excuse the miserable job LIPA did though. They knew this storm was coming, they should have had those out of state crews on site and ready to go the next day.
probably a combination of stations getting their power back and the rationing system. I waited 25 minutes on Friday and last night there was only a 3 car wait. As we drove down old country road westbury none of the stations had a wait and cars were at the pump.
I'm guessing there's just a lot more people in the city with fewer stations (or working stations)? Strange since most should be using public transportation most of the time anyway.
queens and brooklyn have their main distributor destroyed , motiva.
without them the jersey , CT and long island distributors are trying to fill the gap but cant . it takes 3 hours a tanker truck to get them out so they are limited.
shorter lines in places has nothing to do with rationing as its not rationing at all.
all it is doing is taking the daily que of mixed plates that are on line at a limited number of gas stations and changing the mix of plates but there are still the same number of people to fill and not enough gas.
in westchester as of yesterday they have no lines and no odd/even. they just have more stations now sharing the load.
if every day the line is a 50/50 mix of plates and its 2,000 cars long all we are doing with odd or even is taking the 1,000 even that would have been on line anyway in the mixed plates and added tomorrows bunch of 1000 even plates to todays line instead of tomorrows.
nothing changed but we are supposed to feel better so we dont go back on the line again this week to top off eventually shortning the line.
in our feeble minds they expect us to go ,oh the line should be 1/2 as long now but they never figure those who now cant go on tomorrows line like they planned will be added to our line today.
idiots!...
well no one feels better here in the city and every opportunity someone sees a short line they will jump on it creating longer l9ines to top off while they can.
i couldnt believe the station in bayside near us was open at 2:30am. had a ten minute wait and within 4 minutes of hitting gas buddy the line was 90 minutes long.
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Same in Baldwin, Rockville Centre area
