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
Maybe we could build a fire! Sing some songs!
Ouch! That hurt!
They need help FAST!
sw
Or the Republicans could remind the country, it was Clinton protecting his friends in Indonesia, and getting campaign cash, when he made a national park out of an area where clean burning coal was found in Utah. No, I can't expect the Republicans to remind people of what Clinton did to hurt this country.
Red
All I can think of is Clorox. How many gallons of Clorox will it take to sanitize NOLA? Can we arrange air drops?
I'm not totally kidding.
I think the answer is because other states would not allow refineries to be built there, so the oil companies built wherever they could get permits.
That's a little more direct than I was with my comments. I got ignored. Did you ever get a response from the creative writer who penned this article?
Your premise is false. Two (2) of the nations almost 150 refineries in New Orleans.
There are a few more scattered along the 100+ miles of river up to Baton Rouge (where there is a huge Exxon facility).
I'll post a PDF link again for anyone who wants to deal with facts.
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/le/benzene/benz_apb.pdf
na... BS artists usually don't reply when called to the table.. kinda like stating facts to a liberal, they will just call you names or run away :)
I'm thinking of contributing money when I find something that won't flush the money down a rathole politician's or "fundraisers" pocket and I don't send money to "charity" easily.
I contributed to the Swift Boat Vets and the RNC before the last election and some blogs that are on the side of me and my country's survival.
And "put on a show"?
Yep agreed.
Take care of the situation but not panic in the process.
Americans get stuff done.
We are witnessing a nightmare unfolding. . .PLEASE do not make it any worse by bringing in a certain person's name. . .(!)
I'm wondering how much money George Soros and Peter Lewis, who together contributed $50M to their petulant campaign to unseat Bush, will contribute towards Hurricane Katrina relief. Just a thought.
The official spin from the left is that no new drilling can be allowed, as that is why the hurricane happened in the first place.
I suspect in the coming days we will be seeing protest to ban off shore drilling in the Gulf to stop "Global Warming'.
Chill cricket
I debated whether to even respond to you two... My headline dealt with the losses and the human suffering which didn't appear to be getting out in the mainstream yesterday. You can go to www.wwltv.com for a local perspective. The other info that the post mentioned, regarding gasoline, was an FYI. By now, with just a little effort, you could find out that what I said was fairly accurate. It wasn't crying "the sky is falling". It was just passing on what I knew.
Just under 1/2 the gasoline in the US is refined in the Gulf Coast. Granted, Texas didn't get hit by the hurricane, but there are interdependencies among all of the refineries. For example, the Conoco Phillips refinery just outside of NO is flooded and will not be open for months. They send byproducts and some raw material to their refinery located just south of Houston for upgrading. Guess what, that ain't gonna happen for a while. The Valero Refinery in St. James (just north of NO) from what I heard was under water also. Before the hurricane, refineries were already operating at nearly 95% utilization. I haven't done the math yet, but I would bet we lost a significant percentage of capacity for some time. And releasing more OIL from the Strategic Reserve won't make more gasoline!!!
Fortunately, the main oil offloading facility off the coast of Louisiana had only moderate damage. But that doesn't mean they can get it in a pipeline and pump it ashore. There is no place to send it. The terminals on shore can't be reached or have no power.
Do what you want with the info. Put on the blinders and plug your ears. Myself, I fill up often... and for now, I am down hear working the shelters and helping out whereever I can.
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