A New York man drives to Connecticut to buy gasoline and bring it back to his neighborhood in New York City, but he wasn’t using government-approved containers, the police cited him and confiscated the gasoline. He and his neighbors are out their money, and still don’t have gas.
Because that’s the main problem New York City is facing right now: gas transported in unapproved containers.
The New York Times says that disasters call for big government; this is big government at work.