Talk About Having Bad Gas

Maybe that's why an NBC helicopter was hovering over my neighborhood

I'm skeptical as to just how "accidental" the mixing of gasoline and water was. I and several others have had incidents of being blatantly overcharged at Lukoil stations, particularly the one across from Shop Rite on Broad Street.

Yes. Yes. Just south of Watchung ramp, there were two cars pulled over, then a little further on, about six more cars on the shoulder.

I thought it was a caravan and they all pulled over to catch up. Then one fellow was walking along the shoulder to the other cars.

After I paid the toll southbound, the traffic was terrible. Lo and behold, there was a car stopped dead in the center lane.

You know what I hate about paying the tolls on the Parkway - yeah, everything! but mostly - when you drop in your 70 cents, and you still don't get the go-ahead. You have to honk like a madman! And that doesn't ensure you won't get a nice letter in the mail from the fuzz.

Get an E-Z pass.

I knew it couldn't be the Northbound side one - my friend Ali would never let that happen to my gas.

The gas station at Passaic in Bloomfield near Four Corners had a sign "No Gas" when I passed by on Sunday.

Has anyone else noticed a number of the EZ Pass lanes aren't working properly as of late? Some of the screens have been freezing or not registering anything at all. It's the screen, not my EZ Pass.

I noticed the cars as well. Thought at first that it was a funeral procession waiting for stragglers, but no hearse.

Anyone know if that Getty station plans on ever providing gas again, or is it now just a service station?

It was a funeral procession. They were marking the death of gasoline prices under $2.50.

I wonder which Russian oligarch made billions by arranging the deal to acquire this "bad gas."

Quite a few oligarchs did:

Company's top managers Vagit Alekperov and Leonid Fedun control about a quarter of LUKoil shares while about 20 % is owned by ConocoPhillips. The rest of shares is a free-float.

Board of Directors elected at the Annual General Shareholders Meeting on June 28, 2005 consists of Valery Grayfer (Chairman, General Director of the JSC RITEK), Vagit Alekperov (President of the OAO LUKOIL), Mikhail Berezhnoi (General Director of the Non-Profit Organisation LUKoil-Garant Non-State Pension Fund), Oleg Kutafin (Rector of the Moscow State Law Academy), Ravil Maganov (First Executive Vice-President of the OAO LUKOIL), Richard H. Matzke (Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Chevron Corporation, ChevronTexaco Corporation (2000-2002)), Kevin Omar Meyers (President of Russia/Caspian Region ConocoPhillips), Sergei Mikhailov (Chairman of the Board of Directors of the JSC Managing Company Management Center), Nikolai Tsvetkov (Chairman of the Management Committee of the NIKoil Investment Banking Group), Igor Sherkunov (Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Closed JSC Investment Group Capital), Alexander Shokhin (President of the State University Higher School of Economics). [5]