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The government funding bill eliminates the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve. What does this mean?

In a 2022 Department of Energy report the agency assessed the following recommending closure of the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve;

🔹NEHHOR was used following Hurricane Sandy… https://t.co/IVwzyxsS2m

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The government funding bill eliminates the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve. What does this mean? In a 2022 Department of Energy report the agency assessed the following recommending closure of the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve;

🔹NEHHOR was used following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to provide fuel for first responder vehicles. The product reserves' limited use stems, in part, from limitations to releasing petroleum product quickly enough to address short-term disruptions, according to DOE officials

🔹 DOE has not fully considered future risks to regional petroleum product supplies or the benefits of alternatives to the existing product reserves to mitigate such risks. For example, supply risks in the Northeast and other regions may have changed since NEHHOR and NGSR were created.

DOE's 2020 analysis focused on past scenarios rather than future risks or the potential role of alternative ways to mitigate them. Our numbskull DOE and legislators haven’t come up with an alternative energy supply when a future disaster occurs in the Northeast.

Therefore, if a disaster happens in the future, truckers will have to haul fuel from other regions creating additional backlogs and delays for the citizens in the northeastern region of the United States. Are they trying to kill us?

Report linked. https://gao.gov/products/gao-22-105404