Nice map/graphic
We’ll be fine....Not like ports haven’t been closed before. Just a few days...
Pretty interesting, my Guard unit just drove down from Dallas into San Antonio, and we were commenting on the gas prices. Mostly surprised they haven’t gone up, there were some stations at $1.90-$2. When Dallas area has been around $2.15 or so.
A dictator with a strategic view would organize our oil and gas infrastructure differently than the industry has, and would do so in a way leaving it less at risk to mother nature’s whims.
I would use pipelines with sea-based locations to move crude inland and move product out to tanker ships. I would not have refineries anywhere near or within 100 miles of where hurricanes potentially make landfall. The cost? Probably less than the economic cost of the lost production nearly every time a major hurricane makes landfall in or near, or between New Orleans and Houston.