I have
to commend the Time Leader for their diligent reporting on The W-B Gas-Gate.
- Who’s fueling who?
- Leighton, DPW boss scrutinized
- City’s fuel fiasco drains confidence
- W-B fuel tanks leak checked
- City gov’t tanks when it comes to doing valid math Mark Guydish Commentary
In today’s
TL Editorial
Leighton
told Terrie he drives “200 to 300 miles a month.”
If
Leighton drives 200 to 300 miles a month and we give his Chevy Traverse an
average efficiency of 20 mpg for a mix of highway and city miles, his failure
to log the gas he pumps out of city storage tanks would account for 10 to 15
gallons worth of discrepancy a month.
Terrie’s numbers showed the city was
averaging nearly 2,500 gallons of discrepancy a month.
Even
after it became clear this fiasco could cost the city thousands of dollars if
the feds launch an investigation, city Administrator Marie McCormick voiced
utter faith in the vapor trail. Without a scrap of paperwork, she said the city
could reconstruct fuel use.
“For
instance, we know we have ‘x’ number of packers and we know how often they are
used. We could estimate how much gas you would need in them,” suggested
McCormick. “There would be those types of things we could prove.”
Mark
Guydish of the Times Leader said
- “I might be an old fuddy-duddy stickler for asking, but ask I must:
- When did pulling imaginary numbers out of seven-month-old exhaust fumes become “proof”?
Reading
Mark’s editorial It’s easy to see just how disgusted the reports are trying to
make sense of it all, or just trying to get answers to basic questions.
It really
should be this hard for any citizen, report, anyone, to get answers from their government,
but this is Wilkes Barre City A.K.A The Land of Make Believe, and as much as I wish
we could exile the slime in city hall to Hope, NJ, the fact is even New Jersey
has its standards.
Questions:
- Where are the DPW Video’s?
- Does anyone look at them? (Give them to WBCTPA) they will watch them!
- Whose job is it to ensure that everyone is following the rules?
- Let’s assume it’s not a case of theft, (I know it the W-B) but even if it were just a logging issue should the city have caught this?
- What does Ken Pahler actually do, because with Gas-Gate it’s clear he’s not managing the DPW!!!
It’s
high time we cut the deadwood!
Wake Up
Wilkes Barre
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