Nassau bill seeks alternative power for gas stations

Originally published: November 7, 2012 4:30 PM
Updated: November 7, 2012 8:51 PM
By CELESTE HADRICK celeste.hadrick@newsday.com

Photo credit: Barry Sloan | The snow comes down as customers fill their cars up with gas at the Mobil Station on Mannetto Hill Road in Plainview. (Nov. 7, 2012)

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Nassau Legis. David Denenberg (D-Merrick) filed legislation Wednesday requiring all county gas stations within six months to have an alternative-energy source to pump gasoline if the electricity should go out in the future.

The alternative power source could be a manual-, battery- or generator-operated pump.

The law, co-sponsored by Nassau's eight other Democratic legislators, is modeled...

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