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Shell To Close 1,000 Gas Stations: Here's Why, Company Says Shell To Close 1,000 Gas Stations: Here's Why, Company Says
Shell To Close 1,000 Gas Stations: Here's Why, Company Says One of the nation's major oil companies says it will close 1,000 gas stations. Shell made the announcement in its 2024 Energy Transition Strategy report, saying the measure is “in response to customer needs” and aimed at reallocating those resources towards EV charging stations. Shell said it will close 500 stations in 2024 and the other 500 in 2025. "We believe growth in oil demand is set to slow in the second half of this decade and could start falling in the 2030s because of increasing vehicle efficiency and growth in electric vehicles," the company stated in the report. "Toda…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Parkway Gas Stations Robbed Minutes Apart: State Police Parkway Gas Stations Robbed Minutes Apart: State Police
Parkway Gas Stations Robbed Minutes Apart: State Police Two gas stations along the Garden State Parkway were robbed within minutes of each other on Friday, Aug. 18, authorities said. Troopers responded to an armed robbery on at 12:44 a.m. at the parkway's Shell and Exxon stations in the northbound and southbound Colonia Service Areas in Woodbridge Township, according to Detective Jeffrey Lebron, a spokesman with the New Jersey State Police. Based on a preliminary investigation, the gas stations were robbed at gunpoint separately within minutes by four unknown suspects in a black Mercedes Benz, Lebron said.  The unknown suspects demand…

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by Jon Craig
News
These 70+ NJ Gas Stations Are Dropping Prices Friday These 70+ NJ Gas Stations Are Dropping Prices Friday
These 70+ NJ Gas Stations Are Dropping Prices Friday Ever wonder how cheap gas in New Jersey would be if it was self-serve? More than 70 New Jersey stations will be offering fuel at a discounted rate to show drivers just that on Friday, May 13. The initiative promoting self-serving fueling was launched by Fuel Your Way NJ, a coalition that advocates for self-serve gas stations that still offer full service. The coalition appropriately titled the day " Fuel Your Way NJ Self-Serve Day of Awareness." Self-service stations were proposed in a measure by lawmakers in March, however, it was halted by in the General Assembly by the Motoris…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Summit Man Found Guilty In Knifepoint Gas Station Robbery Summit Man Found Guilty In Knifepoint Gas Station Robbery
Summit Man Found Guilty In Knifepoint Gas Station Robbery A Union County jury on Tuesday returned a guilty verdict against a Summit man charged with armed robbery after threatening a gas station attendant at knifepoint in 2018. The jury deliberated for less than a day before convicting 47-year-old Patrick Vermilyea of first-degree armed robbery, third-degree possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose, and fourth-degree theft of movable property, acting Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo and Summit Police Chief Andrew Bartolotti said. The verdict came after three days of trial testimony before Union County Superior Court Judge Lisa Miralles W…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
WINNERS: Two Powerball Tickets Worth $50K Sold In Middlesex County WINNERS: Two Powerball Tickets Worth $50K Sold In Middlesex County
Winners: Two Powerball Tickets Worth $50K Sold In Middlesex County There was no jackpot winner in Wednesday's Powerball drawing, but there were five lower-tier winners in New Jersey including a $100,000 prize in Somerset County. The jackpot now rolls to $640 million for Saturday's drawing. A third-prize Powerball ticket — which doubled in value to $100,000 with the Power Play option for an extra $1 — was bought at Krauszer’s on 435 Amwell Road in Hillsborough, state Lottery officials said. It was one of five New Jersey tickets to match four of five what balls plus the red Powerball. The other four — worth $50,000 apiece — were sold at the following locati…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
COVID Price Gougers Include Jersey Shore Biz That Marked Up Masks 600%, State Charges COVID Price Gougers Include Jersey Shore Biz That Marked Up Masks 600%, State Charges
COVID Price Gougers Include Jersey Shore Biz That Marked Up Masks 600%, State Charges A dozen COVID price gougers fined by the state include a Jersey Shore business that sold masks at a 600% markup, a Bergen County pharmacy that peddled at-home antibody tests and several other merchants who jacked up prices on bottled water, rice and other essentials, authorities announced Monday.  Performance Supply LLC made “false and misleading statements in advertising N95 mask respirators for sale to personnel from the New York City Office of Citywide Procurement,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The Manalapan-based business “misleadingly suggested the company i…

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by Jerry DeMarco