"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Oscar_Lives" wrote in message
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I just heard the mayor of New Orleans talking on CNN. He said that the
hurricane is likely to shut down 1/3 of the gasoline and natural gas imports
to the United States this week, and that the shutdown would last for months
to come. This sounds like some serious ****.

They shut down the off shore drilling rigs and the shipping lanes from South
America are blocked or disrupted for a time. I don't know how real it all is,
but you can be sure the price will go up.

Gas today was 2.629 here in CT. Home heating oil is 2.27 to 2.35. I was able
to lock in at 2.35 for the season, up from 1.60 last year.

Bad time to be a Hummer dealer. Or an owner too I guess.

This is Turtle.

Edwin , New Orleans does off load a good amount of import oil but there is other
ports that can take up any slack New Orleans may fall behind on. Sabine Pass/
Houston and Lake Charles / cameron can take in what New Orleans takes in today.
Both of these are running at 50 % to 60% of their ability.

And another thing : Where they off load tankers at in New Orleans it will not be
hit by the high water and tidel wave. All this docking to do this is inland and
not exposed to the gulf. The water will rise in that area and then go back down
and they can go back to off loading the oil. Also about 1/2 the oil that is off
loaded at New Orleans . The ships go on up to Baton Rouge to off load about 60
miles inland from New Orleans. Only the Super tankers have to stop in New
Orleans. Also just about all the refinerey are not in the city but up on high
ground out of the city.

It's just a bunch of hooppla going on here.

TURTLE