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To: gitmo
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.

5 posted on 08/28/2005 5:08:45 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: SoftballMominVA

The offshore rigs are in danger as well.


6 posted on 08/28/2005 5:11:18 PM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: SoftballMominVA
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.

7 posted on 08/28/2005 5:12:36 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (I'm a Conservative but will not support evil just because it's "the law.")
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To: SoftballMominVA
The tankers pull up, dump the MidEast oil and
Where does the Venezuelan oil dump?
31 posted on 08/28/2005 5:39:26 PM PDT by _Jim (Listening 28.400 MHz USB most every day now ...)
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To: SoftballMominVA

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.


35 posted on 08/28/2005 5:41:15 PM PDT by Androcles (All your typos are belong to us)
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To: SoftballMominVA

""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


44 posted on 08/28/2005 6:03:20 PM PDT by atlanta67
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To: SoftballMominVA

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.


54 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:55 PM PDT by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: SoftballMominVA

The LOOP handles 50% of ALL INCOMING PETROLEUM



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


68 posted on 08/28/2005 6:54:14 PM PDT by deport (If you want something bad enough, there's someone who will sell it to you. Even the truth your way.)
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