[SoftballMominVA]

Want to know the worst part about New Orleans being devastated? Who here knows what the LOOP is?--that would be the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. The LOOP handles 50% of ALL INCOMING PETROLEUM and almost that much in natural gas. The tankers pull up, dump the MidEast oil and the pipes send it on its way.

The LOOP can sustain 200 mph winds, so the engineers say.

We lose the LOOP, we will be looking back fondly at gas only being 3 bucks a gallon.

[gitmo]

The offshore rigs are in danger as well.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Who here knows what the LOOP is

On the Gulf Coast, I'd say about 80% of us do. More than that in Mississippi, Louisiana and SE Texas.

[_Jim]

The tankers pull up, dump the MidEast oil and

Where does the Venezuelan oil dump?

[Androcles]

Actually the worst part wouldn't be a surge in oil prices, it would be the human tragedy of dead residents, guardsmen and so forth.

Oil scarcity and prices are an inconvenience not a tragedy.

[atlanta67]

""that would be the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. The LOOP handles 50% of ALL INCOMING PETROLEUM and almost that much in natural gas. The tankers pull up, dump the MidEast oil and the pipes send it on its way.""


sorry but I dont beleive that...i saw where it handles about 1m barrels per day...50% of all imports would be something like 7m barrels per day..i dont buy it

[sportutegrl]

The Loop is why we don't have Exxon Valdeze type accidents in Louisiana. Tankers don't have to come to port so less chance of hitting stuff on shore like rocks.

[deport]

The LOOP handles 50% of ALL INCOMING PETROLEUM

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Where are you getting that figure?..... got a link? How about +-13%.