Not fueling around: Rick Scott rips Florida's 'ridiculous' gas shortages during and after Milton
Florida’s former Governor is offering another indirect critique of his replacement’s storm response.
During an interview on the “Ryan Gorman Show,” U.S. Sen. Rick Scott slammed the slow pace of gas returning to the system in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.
“We finally have gas back in our gas stations,” Scott said. “That took a ridiculous amount of time.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis was compelled to take extraordinary measures to resolve what he called a distribution problem to bring fuel supply back to heavily populated Southwest Florida. Petroleum at the pump there was depleted even before the storm hit as evacuees filled roads to get out of town, and the shortage of fuel only exacerbated the str...
