Only one actually, the Colonial. It was shut down due to a fire and prior to that it was running at reduced rates due to the refinery outages caused by Ike.
Supposedly, we get our gas via pipelines, three I think, from the gulf. When Katrina hit the area, we ran out of gas. Now Ike hits and we run out of gas again.
Will someone explain the wisdom of concentrating our enery production in one vulnerable place?
Ask Congress about that not really drilling thing.
Talk to God. He put the oil in specific areas, and he put the more efficient transportation routes in specific areas.
You could pay a lot more for gasoline on an everyday basis if you wanted to build some refineries elsewhere and pay to ship the crude there and back.
...and related to that, you could get gasoline from refineries elsewhere at a greater cost, but laws are in place to prevent you from being able to pay more to get gasoline from elsewhere (aka, “price gouging”), so the voters have decided it’s better to have no gasoline at all than to get it at a higher price from places that have it.
Only one actually, the Colonial. It was shut down due to a fire and prior to that it was running at reduced rates due to the refinery outages caused by Ike.
There are hundreds of reasons to concentrate a particular type of industry in a few areas instead of spreading it over a wide area. All of them have to do with price.