Section 10-101. Legislative intent and purpose

The legislature hereby
  finds and declares: that adequate supplies of fuel are essential to  the
  health,  welfare and safety of the people of the state of New York; that
  any severe disruption in fuel supplied for use within  the  state  would
  cause  grave  hardship  and  pose  a  threat  to the health and economic
  well-being of the people of the state; that the federal  government  has
  enacted  into  law  the  Emergency  Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, as
  amended by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975,  pursuant  to
  which  the  state  of New York has established a fuel set-aside program;
  and that temporary and concurrent state authority for a  fuel  set-aside
  program  should  be  in  place  as  the  federal  government terminates,
  suspends or fails to implement all or part of the federal program during
  the vacation or heating seasons.