Looks like the long lines at gas stations are over! (Farmingdale: insurance, condo)
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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.
Right across from the movie theater right?
Yeah me too...my thoughts were if there isn't a line, that gas station doesn't have gas!
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.
It's the psychosis of it. I agree it's not rationing at all; but what it does accomplish is keeping people off the line that may have been topping off every day because of some type of fear complex.
Was out on the road today. Many stations had gas and little or no line. Long Island is definitely easing but looking at gas buddy, the city is still struggling.
So far we are all topping off every chance we get as long as we can.
No telling if you will have the gas, the time or the place to even fuel up,
I know a quarter tank buys me another 2 days i can get to work.
So far nothing changed here in the city with so many stations off line.
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Originally Posted by mathjak107
Struggling isnt the word. Fuel is almost impossible to get today in bayside.
Ill get gas in long island during the week. Just wait until all us city folk visit your stations.
Hmmm, causal relationship?
If you live in Bayside, then you also know that the driving in the immediate area has gotten worse, not better. Bell Blvd. and Northern Blvd. have been mobbed since Sandy. I personally have seen people drive three or four blocks instead of walking.
Maybe if the psychos that live in and around Bayside got off their giant rumps and out of their car/homes for a minute, it wouldn't be as bad. Take a walk around the area on the weekend and see how many empty parking spaces and driveways are empty that are full on weeknights.
As always, North Queens and its Entitlement Queens create problems.
By the way, the lines, while they exist, as close as Little Neck, are shorter, better managed and better behaved than the animals in Bayside.
Please stay in your utopian bayside for gas. Long islanders need their gas. You dont. You can jog to work. Perhaps you are one of those joggers that drive to their favorite park to run. Dont worry I understand that irony
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