12 NJ Counties ** GAS RATIONING ** Odd and Even Plates

[presence]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...d86cac-25ae-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html

Drivers with license plates ending in an even number will be able to buy gas on even-numbered days, and those with plates ending in an odd number can make gas purchases on odd-numbered days.


A Christie spokesman tells the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark that there currently are no restrictions on filling gas containers.

 

[Anti Federalist]

1978 redux

 

[thoughtomator]

ho ho, that vanity license plate ending in a letter doesn't seem like such a hot idea now, does it?

 

[ShaneEnochs]

If anyone gets any government cheese, let me know. That stuff is delicious.

 

[kathy88]

1978 redux

Exactly what I was thinking. I remember the lines and my dad bitching.

 

[phill4paul]

Whats to stop someone from using another's plate? Do they actually check registration at the pumps?

 

[rprprs]

Whats to stop someone from using another's plate? Do they actually check registration at the pumps?

Ha ha. I rember doing that back in the late 70's on a trip from Phila. to Cape Cod, MA. Drove with a friend in his car, and took along the plate from my car just in case. So long ago that I no longer remember if we actually had to switch it though.

 

[malkusm]

What if you walk to the gas station with a canister? What then?

 

[CaptUSA]

If they'd just end all restrictions, NJ residents would be having gas delivered to their homes. You wouldn't even have to go out and wait. For $20 a gallon or so, every resident in the surrounding areas would be delivering canisters to make an easy buck. But alas, they'd call that gouging... People living in the real world would call that the market adapting to market signals.

 

[Paul Fan]

Here is a link to the text of the order: http://www.scribd.com/doc/112006345/Executive-Order-108-Gas-Rationing Letter-only plates are being treated as odd.

The order is limited to fuel intended "for use in passenger automobiles", so it looks like canisters are exempt (just don't tell them it is for your passenger auto).

The government really should not be given the authority to interfere with private transactions in this way. Why did the people of NJ hand over these "emergency" powers?

 

[CaptUSA]

Why did the people of NJ hand over these "emergency" powers?

Gluttons for punishment? Masochists?

Nah, I'm guessing ignorance and indifference.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Here is a link to the text of the order: http://www.scribd.com/doc/112006345/Executive-Order-108-Gas-Rationing Letter-only plates are being treated as odd.

The order is limited to fuel intended "for use in passenger automobiles", so it looks like canisters are exempt (just don't tell them it is for your passenger auto).

The government really should not be given the authority to interfere with private transactions in this way. Why did the people of NJ hand over these "emergency" powers?

i'll tell those residents of the shore towns, as they are recovering what little they have of their homes and businesses, and their whole life's worth, and perhaps even lost loved ones, that they should be storming the bastille instead.

 

[acptulsa]

ho ho, that vanity license plate ending in a letter doesn't seem like such a hot idea now, does it?

And the state charged extra for those, too...

If they'd just end all restrictions, NJ residents would be having gas delivered to their homes. You wouldn't even have to go out and wait. For $20 a gallon or so, every resident in the surrounding areas would be delivering canisters to make an easy buck. But alas, they'd call that gouging... People living in the real world would call that the market adapting to market signals.

What's more, that markup would cover some productive labor. So, we have gubbermint promoting the broken window fallacy, then outlawing the making of glass (so to speak).

 

[Anti Federalist]

i'll tell those residents of the shore towns, as they are recovering what little they have of their homes and businesses, and their whole life's worth, and perhaps even lost loved ones, that they should be storming the bastille instead.

If I had lost everything and was grubbing around trying to scratch up what remained, and had cops barking orders at me and pointing machine guns in my face, I'd be ready to storm the Bastille, for example.

There is no better time than now to point out the inadequacies and power grabs of government.

Nobody tends to listen when everything is hunky dory.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

i'll tell those residents of the shore towns, as they are recovering what little they have of their homes and businesses, and their whole life's worth, and perhaps even lost loved ones, that they should be storming the bastille instead.

Meanwhile, people on the internet are still going to talk about things.

 

[Vessol]

When will people realize that price controls and ceilings do not work and only cause more suffering for those that they intend to protect?

 

[Anti Federalist]

When will people realize that price controls and ceilings do not work and only cause more suffering for those that they intend to protect?

What, you mean we can't pass a law that makes gas ten cents a gallon and the minimum wage $100?

 

[presence]

What, you mean we can't pass a law that makes gas ten cents a gallon and the minimum wage $100?

I bet we could repeal a few and get close.