Gasoline And Greed

The lights are burning brightly at the Jersey Shore casino towers – but locals are told they just can’t get the power on at the gas station two blocks away in the wreckage of their residential community impoverished by its gambling habit.

So there is lots of gasoline but you can’t have it because the pumps don’t work.  No power.  No gasoline.  If only that were true.

Gas stations are supplied by huge tanker trucks that drain their fuel into underground tanks by gravity.  Why not drain the gasoline directly from the tanker truck to the fuel tank in your car?  Let’s say you pay by the flow-minute.  Four filler hoses for each tanker truck, and a truck stationed at every third or fourth street corner.  Who needs electricity to supply gasoline?  This is an emergency.

Or how about a hand-cranked pump to raise gasoline from the underground tanks? This is not rocket science.

Sorry folks.  It’s not a power shortage.  That may never be fixed.  The problem is greed and Americans have just voted for more of the same.  No power.  No people.