"And post Hurricane Sandy, we have the issue of Government mandated gasoline rationing. On any given day, 50% of customers cannot legally tank up their cars due to the last digit of the license plate number.
Experience in NJ and NY shows that rationing has worked tremendously well. Gas lines have gone from 3 hours down to [crossed-out]15 minutes[/crossed-out] nothing, even as many stations still have no power and fuel deliveries are not back to normal."
Comments
For a counterpoint, see here: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/why-does-odd-evengas-ra...
"And post Hurricane Sandy, we have the issue of Government mandated gasoline rationing. On any given day, 50% of customers cannot legally tank up their cars due to the last digit of the license plate number.
Experience in NJ and NY shows that rationing has worked tremendously well. Gas lines have gone from 3 hours down to [crossed-out]15 minutes[/crossed-out] nothing, even as many stations still have no power and fuel deliveries are not back to normal."