Activity In Tropics Emerges As Next Big Hurricane Could Send Gas Prices To “Apocalyptic” Levels

blam is nothing but a paid shill for the Zubu syndicate, who are nothing but doom forecasters.

You have been around long enough to know that personal attacks are inappropriate in this forum. Beyond that, blam has been around here much longer than you, and he has earned his creds through posting consistently reliable info through the years.

Furthermore, blam offers words of wisdom here as a gentle reminder for those of us living in hurricane alley. In case you haven't been paying attention, a whole lot of people have been moving into conservative hurricane-prone areas over the past few years as they escape liberal locales. These transplants to hurricane country are typically unprepared for the silly season.

In summary, Grasshopper, you chose the wrong Freeper to attack, and you lack comprehension of the subject addressed.

That was a nice way of saying you are ignorant here. Crawl back into your hole.

Prepper Ping – Another reason to watch and keep an eye on the weather, and anticipate personal action
The bottleneck in fuel supplies (Gasoline, Diesel, aviation fuel, etc.) is at the Gulf Coast refineries
Due to the need for large investment capital and limiting Federal government regulations,
last week Bloomberg financial said that there would never be another refinery built in the US

"Tropical activity in the Gulf can shutter offshore drilling rigs and onshore refining operations.
And given today’s extremely tight refining capacity and a bulk of the nation’s refineries are situated on the Gulf Coast,
we “have to cross our fingers that no refining infrastructure gets damaged by hurricanes or by the electric grid,” Kloza said.

Ahead of the hurricane season, which began on the first of June, Bloomberg Markets’s Jake Lloyd-Smith warned
about the consequences of an active hurricane season and how it could severely disrupt refinery operations.
Everyone, including the Biden administration, has figured out that the bottleneck in refining is the culprit behind soaring diesel and gasoline prices. (Emphasis mine)

The US is structurally short and down 1 million barrels from April 2020 to 17.95 million bpd as of June.
All it would take is one (or multiple) major hurricanes with direct landfall on the Gulf Coast (or PADD 3) to send fuel prices at the pump even higher "

Current gulf / tropic activity poses no threat in the very short term. However, the nasty buggers can develop quickly under the right conditions. I’m concerned about the second half of the season where many major storms habitat. Just another stack of wood on the current energy shortage fire.

It takes a short memory to underestimate the precarious energy situation facing the U.S. these days. Recall May 7-13, 2021 when the Colonial Pipeline software was hacked. 45% of gasoline, diesel, home heating oil, jet fuel, and military supply fuel from Texas to New York was shut down.

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