Personally, I believe if people are jacking up the price on anything during a disaster, they should be prosecuted, and their business taken away. Any other time, they can do what they want.
The reason I asked the question is I can't seem to figure out why there are no MOU's for this, and why local, state, and federal agencies haven't found a way to implement some system during the recovery phase to wire a generator for that station. Even if that meant the owner of the service station could keep the wiring and not the generator. In return, the government (any level) could get them up and running, get fuel to the public, as well as provide fuel for the local responders...
i think because gas stations are not considered needed infrastructure in the event of a emergency, at least on the city, state or federal level, so no funding for your plan..... remember driving a car is a privilege and not a right..meaning that the government won't and doesn't need to keep you in your car driving for the country to continue to operate during an emergency. most government facilities that are set up for disaster response typically have fuel tanks on site or even have massive portable gennys they can bring and hook up to a gas station on site, for their needs, not yours...
like said above me a certain level of being prepared and self reliance
should be expected from our citizenry, if you've lacked the fore thought to have a bit of fuel stored in case of a power outage or the like you should be expected to pay a significant markup in the times of emergency, we aren't talking about food or water here, we're talking about transportation mostly, as i doubt most inner city people will have genny's to run in their homes to begin with , and those that have had the forethought to buy a genny probably also have the fore thought to have 10 gallons of gas or so on hand.
at one point in my life i would like Americans to pretend there's not always going to be someone there to help you, and have Americans actually plan ahead and take care of themselves as opposed to having crap happen then everyone looking to the government to save them...yes,yes,yes, we need all of the things the government does for us, and they do have a purpose and a place, but i also think Americans shouldn't plan to count on such things in a disaster......if more people tried to look out for themselves it would make what resources we have go that much further and to be blatantly honest maybe we wouldn't have so many pussies who can't do anything in our country anymore...i'm sorry but when a large portion of american males can't even change a tire, we got a problem, i get not everyone can be a macho man, heck i'm not a macho man, that's for sure, but every guy should know how to change a tire or do the most basic of tasks to take care of your self in an emergency....seriously you'd be surprised how often i come across this.....we need to teach kids from an early age how to survive in life increasingly so when alot of kids don't have a father or anyone one around to show them these things, i think girls should know all of this as well, my wife can change her oil,plugs,tire,alternator and most of the common and basic problems with a car...and really that goes to show you the difference of growing up on a farm with old values and growing up in the main stream of society ..alot of my 30 something male friends can't do half the work my wife can on a car or life in general.....
yeah this is a rant at this point,....meh....and please don't take this to mean everybody, i've made broad sweeping generalizations here, i know i'm talking to a group of people who don't actually do alot of the things i'm ranting about, as if your on this board, you are probably somewhat self reliant anyways, things like this just piss me off...sorry for making you all dumber after reading my post.:hatsoff:
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