Some of the photos posted have shown long lines of people, each with one or two 3 to 5 gallon gas cans, waiting in line to get fuel for their auxiliary generators (at least that's what they told the reporters).

Small generators that you put gasoline in generally won't run more than three to five hours on a tankful of gas, and the cans those people were were carrying wouldn't hold enough to fill the typical tank. While you might be able to run an aux gen for a couple of hours once or twice per day to keep a freezer or refrigerator "cold enough" on 5 gallons of gasoline most of the people probably only wanted to charge their cell phones ...?? ??

I'd be surprised if any of those in the lines shown could carry enough in the cans they had for any useful auto range.

An editor for one of the major PC/Computer Magazines complained in an enews dispatch that his office only had one outlet on an aux generator so there were long lines waiting to get to the outlet - to charge their phones. (He had previously said there were only about 30 people "at work.") Any generator worth yanking the rope to start it should be able to charge 50 or more phones at the same time, without loading it down to where it burned more fuel than just idling with no output at all, but these technical geniuses never heard of a multitap extension cord ... ??????

(this is a reporter I used to have some respect for, but judging from his most recent output, maybe he doesn't know you can plug in more than one wall wart at a time.)

John