New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered fuel rationing based on vehicle registration plates after the city was hit by its second severe storm in just over a week.
Drivers will be allowed to buy petrol on alternating days based on whether their licence plate ends in odd or even numbers, Mr Bloomberg announced at a news conference.
Licence plates ending in a letter are eligible to buy fuel on odd-numbered days, he said.
The system, which follows a rationing programme similar to one implemented in New Jersey last week following superstorm Sandy, begins on Friday at 6am local time.
Long Island will also impose the rationing system, which will begin on Friday at 5am.
Long lines like this one on Staten Island have been common in New York Officials hoped the move would cut enormous lines of increasingly desperate drivers at city petrol stations, a shortage that has created a black market where unscrupulous online sellers offer fuel at more than twice the industry rate.
New York City has been hard hit by fuel shortages since Sandy struck due to power cuts and inventory that has been stranded at refineries.
A second coastal storm, known as a nor'easter, struck on Wednesday bringing snow, rain and high winds - further hampering efforts to get the city's infrastructure back online.
Mr Bloomberg said only a quarter of the city's petrol stations are open.
"This is not a step that we take lightly," Mr Bloomberg told a press conference.
He did not say when the measure would end.
More than 110 people died across the US northeast during Sandy Emergency vehicles, buses, taxis and certain other vehicles are exempt from the rationing system.
More than 110 people died across the US northeast during Sandy, which began as a deadly Caribbean hurricane before driving into New Jersey on October 29.
In New York City, authorities reported that the local death toll reached 41 when an elderly man was found dead in his building.
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo estimated that Sandy and its aftermath had caused $50 billion in damage, with New York state bearing $33 billion of that.
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