Page 23 - Pumping Stations News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

System. i fundamentally believed you're not going to get from here to there, a 21st century transportation system for a 21st century economy without money. i'm open to public and private. we've done some of that. but it doesn't replace public. i'm for an increase in the gas tax. it's real money for real problems that will solve real problems. 1994 was the last time the increase in a gas tax and we did index it to inflation. if you ask president clinton, he would have told you that was a mistake. a lesson when i became mayor, we raised the water rate over a four-year window and indexed it to in...

Drought that we talk about so frequently in california. well, that has come to an abrupt he said and it's all because the storms are lining up one after another after another across the pacific ocean. i mean, this is an active weather pattern for the we wep parts of united states and helping carve out a major dent in that advertised drought take we have talked about for too long. this is amazing. in january alone, we saw almost too much rain. that's what i'm talking about when we sea feast or famine. a lot of the rainfall or the h2o moving from the north to the south where they pump the water ...

Like new orleans if they experience a storm like katrina? >> luke, you can never drive risk to zero. there have been extraordinary things done. the pumping stations tas mouth of the canals at lake pontchartrain, food walls south of new orleans. a number of things have been done but you can't drive risk to zero. >> one thing we learned from katrina is the fault line of american society. the rich were okay. the poor not so much. many of them left to drowned. my father interviewed michael, the homeland security secretary at the time. my father got his irish up during thissish view. >> the only wa...

You take out the water, the ground sings, and things just get worse. lillian is over here at bat 6. that's from sinking in. >> well, to get us up to date on california, which they have a lot of problems. earthquakes, the place is on fire, a bad drought, and the drought is what is leading to the sinking. so, they're going through their fourth straight year of the drought the last two years the warmest and driest on record in california so that's relating to sinks. they have to rely on ground pumping decide sorry, this is crude. >> did you do this? >> no. i stole it from the government. so they'...

Gasoline program into motion. now that emergency order is official with him signing it today. here is why. look at the long lines. growing anger. growing lines over the shortage of fuel in the city. the good news though this morn, the pumping stations, refineries and infrastructure you were talking about, jon, that was all damaged or left without electricity following sandy are coming back online. a pipeline that feeds gasoline to the millions of who live in the new york city five boroughs is finally operational but it is not instantaneous and that's the problem. while the system tries to catc...