Troubled South taps New Haven CT gas

For a couple of hours on Monday, a New Haven gasoline terminal was empty.

“It happens from time to time,” said Eugene Guilford Jr., executive director of the Independent Connecticut Petroleum Association, of a huge gasoline storage tank at the harbor running dry.


When Ike swamped Texas earlier this month and idled 14 refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, Guilford said, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued waivers from federal reformulated gasoline requirements for the Southern states. It recently gave waivers to Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Those waivers let those states compete for gasoline deliveries with New England states, he said.

Connecticut Post