NEW ORLEANS. IT'S WORSE THAN YOU ARE HEARING!

WWL Television in New Orleans, LA ^ | Aug 29, 2005 | none

[alligator]

The attached is a video from WWL TV in New Orleans. The mayor of New Orleans gives a very detailed report of the condition of the city. As bad as the national news is painting the picture, it falls short of the devastation that has occurred.

There are 8 refineries located in the New Orleans to Mobile areas. Nearly 1/2 of all the gasoline in the country is refined here. These are all shut down, and they don't know for how long. Even if they were capable of running the refineries, there will be a huge shortage of workers as they have evacuated. All of Metarie, Slidell, Mandeville, Kenner, etc is under water and there is no place for them to come home to. Large oil super tankers will not be able to off load to the refineries even if they could run. The pipelines and transport facilities are all in jeopardy.

The New Orleans port and the Mississippi River structure carries nealy 1/4th of the entire countries goods and equipment. The export and import of goods will cease for a long period of time. Fill up your tanks, stock up your goods. Prices will be rising

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.wwltv.com/082905mayor.wmv

[doc30]

German Environment Minister publicly stated so.

[Fido969]

I've got about the same thing, three tanks of gas a week, there's no way to "stock up", except to fill the HHO tank, maybe, though I cringe to do that at 2.35 gal for HHO, but I guess it's not going to get any better.

Anyway, doomday senario aside, I am wondering if I should throw my AK and a few hundred rounds in the trunk in case I get caught far away from home in a shitstorm.

Probably not.

[Born Conservative]

Still waiting for aid to come pouring in from the citizens and nations of the world...

[doc30]

And how long before the enviro-weenees will be in the courts blocking the reconstruction of the refineries?

[Pessimist]

"Wow, if things are so dire, I am sure our friends the Saudis will just up production."

Actually, they already announced they can crank out another 1.5 mil barrels a day. But I don't see how that will help when the immediate problem is refining capacity.

[Fido969]

I heard Venezuela, of all places, was offering aid. Isn't that a hoot?

[DAC21]

Is there a link to the claim that 8 refineries in N.O. area refines half of the gas. Pretty hard to believe when there are approx 140 refineries in the USA

[sully777]

I remember the USA when she used to be the #1 refined petroleum exporter in the world.

[cwb]

"I have never seen nor heard of any President facing so many challenges as have confronted G.W. Bush. There have been great wars, and even civil wars, but never has any faced so many challenges on so many diverse fronts."

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I agree...which surprises me at just how well the economy has hummed along until this time. From the moment Bush stepped in office it was one "disaster" after another...starting with a contested election and the Chinese plane-downing/hostage situation. Whether it was the inherited recession, corporate scandals, 9/11, war (almost civil at times) and several natural disasters...Bush and this country have shown remarkable resiliency.

[Fido969]

Refining capacity in the US is a joke. And our environmental weenies that run the state EPA will only use the "best" gasoline. Half the stuff we make we can't even put into our own cars. Someone told me that California has 20 something various blends and grades of petrol.

[ARCADIA]

I remember the USA when she used to be the #1 refined petroleum exporter in the world.

That was before the globalist A$$holes, and envirowheenies took charge.

[CSM]

Or people might start to carpool.

[Allegra]

He could have prevented this...by signing the Kyoto Agreement.

Actually saw this on some other politics website. :)

DU, perchance? LOL

What we're hearing about New Orleans is bad enough...and what I heard earlier was they're not even close to making a real assessment on the damage yet.

It's painful to watch the coverage. My heart goes out to all of those people from the NO/Gulfport, MS region.

[SkyPilot]

"Game over man! Game over!"

"Look into my eye!"

[cwb]

What's going to be interesting is to see just what other countries step up to the plate and offer help. This country has always led the way in helping others; let's see who helps us.

[Roux]

All Exxon refinery employees were to report as normal today in Baton Rouge.

They are assessing the damage to all of the areas now. Don't panic. Let's just wait and see what happens. I know the speculators will be out running the price up but in the end they'll get burned.

One of the biggest problems right now is communications. The PSTN is still having routing problems and many mobile providers have spotty coverage. Give it some time.

[ChadGore]

Drivel. Did you Cut and Paste that from 'liberaldrivel.blah' ?

[ARCADIA]

many mobile providers have spotty coverage.

You can not have a cellular network without cell sites, and most of those are designed to provide 4-8 hours of battery backup. By now they are down, and they are not coming back up until we can either restore commercial power, or install temporary generators; and, you can't do either until the water goes down and access is restored.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I would suggest the Army Corp start breaking levees up stream of NOLA to help control the down stream flooding.

There is no need whatsover for this. The Mississippi River levee and floodway structures are designed to handle more water than any single hurricane can possibly drop in the drainage area. The only "downstream flooding" will be in low-lying areas of some small local rivers. The FIRST thing they would do would be to open the "Bonnet Carre" spillway--and since they have NOT done that, the corps of engineers obviously doesn't see any problems coming.

[ImphClinton]

Fine.

However we need 98% of our refining capacity. That leaves us 8% short.