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New York's $215 Million Emergency Gas Tanks Are Apocalypse Infrastructure
2014-05-03 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: The seas are going to keep rising, and the super-storms are going to keep coming, so scattering a bunch of giant gasoline storage tanks across the nation for emergency use is probably a good idea. Still, nothing signals the nation's impending Mad Maxification quite like news that the US government is spending $215 million to build 500,000-gallon tanks--the first of many--explicitly for use in future Hurricane Sandy-like crises. "Building on lessons learned from recent extreme weather events like...
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