[topher]

We are already in serious trouble -- Hurricane Rita may become a Cat-5 storm and hit all those refineries from Galveston to Lake Charles, La.

Considering they are trying to get the New Orleans refineries back online as well as the Chevron one in Mississippi, this is very, very bad.

Also, there will be an automatic shutin of most of the offshore Gulf of Mexico production starting about Wednesday maybe Thursday at the latest, and that may not be able to re-open until next week.

Land bases for offshore around New Orleans got hammered and the good land bases between Houston and New Orleans may really get creamed.

I know we have quite a bit of gasoline tanker traffic here in the Northeast. In the New York City Harbor area, they won't let tankers in the Inner Harbor (big firecrackers need not apply) but you see them offloading to barges in the Outer Harbor...

This really stinks. I don't drive much, but this is the time of year that refineries HAVE TO SWITCH to fuel oil production, and Natural Gas needs to be pumped underground for mid-winter draws...

[kellynla]

I know this wouldn't make a difference in the short term but look at this nuclear/hydro/desalination plant. I like the idea!
Would Simultaneously Produce Electricity, Hydrogen & Drinking Water

http://www.aaenvironment.com/nuhydro.htm

[jonrick46]

I am hoping that this will begin a move to diversify our energy production system. We cannot allow the system to be so vulnerable.