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Yonkers Mayor on Rationing Gas

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    Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano on limiting gas sales to 10 gallons per driver.

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Yep all right thank you Nicole.

And those long gas lines are pushing suburban New York community of Yonkers to ration gasoline joining us on the phone Yonkers mayor Mike -- -- -- -- limiting sales to ten gallons per driver thanks for being with us marriage battle would have been the reaction so far -- -- working.

I don't fart everyone's been abide by -- and it's and -- I take is this helps.

But it would Yonkers as you note that -- even -- to big city but it's really -- little babies city it's its.

Person top of New York City.

And now when you have to change populations that are like that and -- -- been -- that at this station.

To our ports support New Jersey and and -- -- hoping some -- purity York.

There -- there's a massive influx of people from both New Jersey.

Around the county and from New York City that are coming -- -- Yonkers.

We we welcome that we like their business but same time.

We're rapidly running at a gas.

Yeah pulled into the most of the city gas stations are actually now at this point.

It's so we felt that putting.

Toward the rationing of just ten gallons for just forty -- -- to guess.

Or.

Or none of emergency -- -- was a right step in trying to at least allow poor all of -- residents have a property.

Have not -- guess let's share and make sure there's enough to go around for all about get your staff -- By what authority legally were you able to do that I didn't realize a local -- -- simply boom put a cap on gas track.

Like that you know we are an -- mercy in the mayors have enormous amount of power -- state of emergency.

We utilize that power to.

To impose that that rationing of gasoline in the city I think it.

We'll while Powell won't wouldn't be long term I guess they're -- program being told in the up and running.

But short term.

We could be tried to try to -- very just north of us is actually completely -- -- guests.

And so we don't want that happened whereas this -- -- the -- -- up.

We will whereas the biggest glitch in the supply chain is it that the refineries aren't make in the gases into the trucks can't get in to deliver the gas to the stations.

It's.

Belly tidbits from what I've been told to basically our ports have been shut down because of the storm.

And it once that happens and and then of course you to visit here's the whole.

-- -- to the usage and how many people using generators.

Right now -- more than that we ever seen or of course the well course -- -- how many gas stations are.

Part shut down because they don't have power.

So our dear dear is Citi.

Limited supply because of the lack of power yes and of course there's an end to back up which is what how we get our guess -- we will commit to -- It said it's a multi pronged problem and you've yet still lit a candle here we'll see if other towns and communities follow your lead thank you so much Yonkers mayor Mike -- -- we're pretty.

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