Gov. DeSantis blames legal 'loophole' on gas station generator shortfall, but probably won't fix it
Gov. Ron DeSantis says it wasn’t his fault that gas stations didn’t have generators in the wake of Hurricane Milton, but that despite statutes mandating generators in many circumstances, he has no appetite to tighten what he calls a “loophole” in the law.
While Florida law dictates that gas stations should be able to operate with “an alternate generated power source for a minimum of 72 hours … no later than 36 hours after a major disaster,” the law grandfathered in facilities built before 2006, and offered exemptions for gas stations based on arbitrary population cutoffs.
In counties with 300,000 people or more, the law applies to stations with “16 or more fueling positions.” In counties wit...
