I was really mad that I had to wait over two and a half hours to fill up o e car and was told when I got to the pump that there was a separate line for gas cans. They should have had a sign leading up to the gas station explaining this. I would have gotten out of the car earlier since I was the passenger to wait in the gas can line. Over all a completely stupid system.

It would be nice if this rallied a wake up call for everyone . Fossil fuel is a limited resource, in plain English the worlds supply will dwindle and shortages will be regular thing unless we get a head start to get off the dinosaur. But , drill baby drill sounds better, after all ; the vendors of this fossil heavily influence our government and media. Dont forget a barrel of crude made in the N America or Middle East is sold on the world market and goes to the highest bidder .

Officials should have been better prepared? Sir are you a child? Is the official your mommy? Grow up any lead not whine. Something to think about at the voting booths.

How come Gov. Big Mouth is not "taking charge" and making "Odd and Even" days mandatory until we get back on track with power and fuel deliveries? This should be done ASAP! and priority needs to be getting fuel deliveries into NJ again. No word was said about this when "Barry" was here the other day.

Do you reallty think that people would wait for "their day" be it an odd day or an even gas day when their generator runs out of gas and their family is home freezing with the temperature going down to the 30s at night? Get real! The thing we need to do is realize that this IS a wake-up call and we need to do not one but multiple things to prevent this from becoming "the norm" in our future. We need to "Drill baby drill" as one poster has put it and we really need to get moving with the off shore wind fields that the politicians talk and talk and talk about. We also need to moving FORWARD with more and better solar installations and NOT ban them like many of our local towns are currently doing. And finally we need to actually BUY the newer cars that the auto industry is cureently rolling off the lines with their electric and super celled battery operated systems. If we do ALL of this, then we can look back at the long gas lines as part of our history; NOT the look of our future...

That's a good idea- "Odd and Even" days. I saw the line this morning for the Getty gas station and it was utterly insane. Of course it didn't help that was the only gas station open in the entire town.

Tom Fox.........Yes odd even would help just as it did in the 70's you HAD to wait until it was your day to be able to buy gas. It worked back then to shorten lines and counter the aggravation and would work the same now. Of course you would be smart enough to buy enough to have for the days when you couldn't buy gas being the responsible person you are. I am not suggesting we change to odd and even days forever as a fix for the energy problems facing all of us, but at least it would make the chaos that is out there now a little more controlled.

we filled up our cars before the storm in anticipation....but my husband just waited on line for over 3 hours in town at the Gulf to get diesel for his boss and was told he is the last customer for diesel.

I love all the whiners in different towns saying they should have been better informed and had more warning. The Weather Channel was talking about this 2 weeks ago, NJ 12 got on board last week with warnings. How much more do they need? All I know is the Butler once again did a great job. 2 days seemed like an eternity to us since we don't have gas to heat water and cook with but we made it through. Thank heavens the Nor'easter that is being predicted for next Wednesday and Thursday won't be so bad. Are you listening out there????

Remember what you have learned from this storm so you are better prepared for the next one. We have already gone out a bought a bigger gas can for our generator.

Thanks to Jessica for noting that it's a Gulf station, not Getty.

Well....I guess we shall see if the Odd-Even days make a difference....right Tom?
Getting Real!!! LOL :)

Do you know of any stations now selling gas up on rt23 toward Vernon?

Now the Gestapo Butler cops have stopped letting people get gas in their cans. Guess who is calling Kane in your Corner in the morning!

I got rid of my car months ago, so I'm finding this all incredibly funny.

Bobby L. ... I agreed with the odd even days for automobiles and believe that it will work as it did in the 70s. I was there, saw it, and remember it well. What I was saying is that I did not belief, as originally concidered, that people should wait for odd / even days for filling up gas cans for their home generators that kept peoples homes warm, food from spoiling and health related machinery running.