Posted on 03/30/2022 5:09:18 AM PDT by blam
Go Vegan
Large airports and military air fields have their fuel directly pipelined from refineries.
The refineries of Big Spring (Texas y’all) and those of the Texas coast are direct sources of jet fuel to Texas airfields.
Top 10 U.S. refineries operable capacity*
As of January 1, 2021
Rank Corporation Company State Site Barrels per calendar day
1 Saudi Aramco Motiva Enterprises LLC Texas Port Arthur 607,000
2 Marathon Petroleum Corp Marathon Petroleum Co LP Texas Galveston Bay 593,000
3 Marathon Petroleum Corp Marathon Petroleum Co LP Louisiana Garyville 578,000
4 ExxonMobil Corp ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Co Texas Baytown 560,500
5 ExxonMobil Corp ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Co Louisiana Baton Rouge 520,000
6 BP PLC BP Products North America Inc Indiana Whiting 435,000
7 PDV America Inc Citgo Petroleum Corp Louisiana Lake Charles 418,000
8 ExxonMobil Corp ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Co Texas Beaumont 369,024
9 Marathon Petroleum Corp Tesoro Refining and Marketing Co California Carson 363,000
10 Chevron Corp Chevron USA Inc Mississippi Pascagoula 356,440
*Includes only refineries with atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity
4 in Texas, 3 in Louisiana and Austin can’t get Av.gas?!
Meaning the airport board did not budget or procure monies to increase fuel storage capacity as air traffic grew over the years.
I hope the military has some fuel set aside for WW3.
When I lived in Houston 1975-1995, we would go to Austin just to party for the weekend.
It was a beautiful city in the early 80’s push the liberals out and save the city.
It's obvious you didn't read the article. It's a storage volume problem at the airport not availability of refined product in the area. Traffic at the airport has greatly increase since it opened in 1999, but the volume of storage at the airport has not increased.
Last fall there were reports that China had started hoarding food. Many of us laughed at that concept as conspiracy stuff.
But here we are now in spring with a 25% estimated drop in grains for this year due to Ukraine/Russia war.
One doesn’t normally hoard food in a crisis, one does so before the “crisis.” The argument could be made that China knew months ago that Russia had plans regarding Ukraine and it would trigger food shortages globally. We Americans we quite ignorant in that regard.
Biden is making severe errors regarding oil. The normal channels are not even taking our phone calls! Seriously, that’s not hyperbole. China is an energy hungry nation and they will do whatever it takes to get the oil, gas, coal they need. In the meantime, leftists in America are telling the poor to buy tesla’s, eat lentil porridge, and stop buying in bulk.
The United States is going to find itself in more than a world of hurt 4 months from now. Sanctions did nothing to stop Putin, do you really think they will stop China from going into Taiwan? Sure let’s sanction China, the rest of the world is staged to trade in other currencies.
Reality check that many even here on FR will call BS:
Gas will be unaffordable for most people.
Americans will not just be malnourished, they will be waking up to the fact they will starve or freeze this winter.
November elections are too late to repair the damage. In fact, clear, cold hard fact, it is too late already. November Republicans must be on a war footing both existentially and internally. The ‘swamp’ must be drained. Every rotten log, stone, must be overturned and removed. (I don’t see that happening, do you?)
Millions will be drafted into service either for war or to feed fellow citizens with what little they can ration.
Biden doesn’t have what it takes to rally the people. When President Trump was faced with the Sars-Cov-2 crisis and no masks, no ventilators, etc. he was able to rally companies to step up. Biden doesn’t have that in him, nor does his regime.
And when enough citizens realize what has happened...well SHTF time unlike we have ever witnessed before. America is just about ripe for the piking.
Austin should be encircled in a high fence and turned into a zoo.
On Tuesday, BlackRock Inc. President Rob Kapito told an audience in Austin, Texas, hosted by the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, that an entire younger generation is quickly finding out what it means to suffer from shortages, according to Bloomberg.
“For the first time, this generation is going to go into a store and not be able to get what they want,” Kapito said. “And we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice.”
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