Would you feel better if you learned that a MAJOR oil company had their primary hub pinched back to only 30% flowrate ON PURPOSE before this storm hit? It didn't make me happy. Wait until the quaterly profits for summer come out....
Which company and which hub? If it's because they had shut off the Gulf wells or because Katrina was bearing on down, I can't exactly fault them.
How's this for outrageous - up here in Wisconsin, the gas stations have to charge at least the HIGHER of 6% above invoice (what they paid for what's in their tanks) or 9.18% above the average wholesale price. And the DemonRAT governor, who sees nothing really wrong about that, and who has just diverted hundreds of millions of gas tax dollars (mind you, we're paying over 32 cents/gallon in state gas taxes) to his buddies in the teachers union, is blaming President Bush for the high gas prices.