New Yorkers Use Craigslist to Skirt Gas Rationing Rules

Craigslist is known as a place to swap hook-up stories, but one New Yorker is using it for something just as essential to share: license plates.

In a message posted to the "Items wanted" category on the Brooklyn section, a crafty resident is asking fuel-thirsty people if they want to switch license plates. It's an attempt to maneuver around the gas rationing rules New York has imposed on its residents to alleviate hoarding and long lines that are crowding city gas stations after Superstorm Sandy.

The state is allowing people with license-plate numbers ending in odd numbers or a letter to fuel up Friday, while drivers with even numbers or a zero can purchase gas on Saturday.

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