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To: Old Sarge

There was talk about building new refineries after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at old military bases.

But once refineries in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Biloxi were back online, nobody cared.

There has only been ONE new refinery built in the 50 to 70 years, and I think it was just recently started in the process of construction...

Surprise! Another pair of hurricanes and another problem with gasoline supplies and prices...

The only reason the oil companies (50 to 70 years ago) built the refineries where they did was to be close to the supply.

113 posted on 09/12/2008 4:19:51 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)

To: topher

Another interesting article on the refineries and Hurricane Ike (the why of the spot shortages and prices going up on SPECULATION):

This is from the source The Oil Drum and is via a Freerepublic link and posting...

130 posted on 09/12/2008 5:09:33 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)

To: topher

Map of critical pipelines in the United States.

Note how use Houston as starting point or New Orleans:

134 posted on 09/12/2008 5:21:00 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)

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