Posted on 08/30/2005 8:03:13 AM PDT by 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
German Environment Minister publicly stated so.
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.
Still waiting for aid to come pouring in from the citizens and nations of the world...
And how long before the enviro-weenees will be in the courts blocking the reconstruction of the refineries?
"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.
I remember the USA when she used to be the #1 refined petroleum exporter in the world.
"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."
Or people might start to carpool.
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.
"Look into my eye!"
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.
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.
Drivel. Did you Cut and Paste that from 'liberaldrivel.blah' ?
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.
Fine.
However we need 98% of our refining capacity. That leaves us 8% short.
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