Q: Why Don't Gas Stations Have Gasoline-Fueled Electrical Generators On Hand?

[stopbush]

63. Seriously? The net gain is that consumers who need gas for their cars would get gas for their cars.

Do you think it takes a gallon of gas to power a generator to dispense a gallon of gas?

My point is that gas stations in the NYC metro area are sitting on millions of gallons of gas that they can't distribute because they don't have electricity. If they had electricity provided by a generator, they could distribute their gas. Maybe they'd pump their tanks dry. So what? Consumers would have received gas so they could go about their business. The gas stations will eventually get a fresh delivery and restart the cycle.

As far as the burden of the cost of running a generator, the station owner could reflect the cost in his per-gallon cost to the consumer. No consumer is going to complain about a small surcharge during a crisis of this magnitude, especially if it means getting gas because a generator was used as opposed to not getting gas because there was no electricity to run the pumps.