GAS IS A GONER : A critical gas crisis has befallen LBI. We’ve damn near run out of service stations. I discovered this the hard way – and I was fuming, literally.

Not having assorted fill-up sites close at hand is doubly troubling for those of a truck-owning ilk. I’ll be the first to admit my beloved heavy-Chevy is the consummate guzzler. Hell, it can guzzle more than a redneck at a beer truck rollover.

So where have all the LBI gas stations gone? You don’t have to be some sorta fuel historian to recall when Ship Bottom alone had six gas stations, five of them in just a 250-yard stretch, starting at the Exxon at “the circle” and ending…