New York City Decides to Extend Gas Rationing Through Friday (original) (raw)

New York|New York City Will Keep Gas Rationing Until Week’s End

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New York City Will Keep Gas Rationing Until Week’s End

Nov. 18, 2012

Gasoline rationing lasted eight days on Long Island, where it was lifted at midnight on Friday by Nassau and Suffolk County officials.

It lasted slightly longer in New Jersey, the state that put the words “gas rationing” back into everyday use after decades and was the first to jettison it, after 10 days.

But in New York City, rationing that was scheduled to end on Monday has been extended through Friday, even as the gas station lines that prompted it have all but disappeared.

In announcing the decision, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg noted that the major travel week ahead comes at a time when 30 percent of gas stations remained closed.

In a statement, Mr. Bloomberg said that he was extending the rationing “to ensure we do not risk going back to the extreme lines we saw prior to the system being implemented.”

The 2012 version of gas rationing has been much less painful than the last time it was imposed here and across the country amid the fuel shortages of the 1970s. Back then, rationing measures — including odd-even, which restricts gas sales to cars with odd-numbered license plates on odd days and even-numbered license plates on even days — stretched on for months and seemed to barely make a dent in the problem.

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