From: Ron (rojoha@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Aug 28 2005 - 16:57:55 PDT
And in the same OSOFON vein :
"Other infrastructure include 17 petroleum refineries with a combined
crude oil distillation capacity of nearly 2.8 million barrels per calendar
day, the second highest in the nation after Texas"
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/state/la.html
Best fill up your tanks tomorrow, along with any other empty containers and
jelly jars you got laying around. Once the media tumbles onto this, it's
gonna make the gas lines of the 70's look like a (you fill in the blank)!
Oh, BTW, George W. was planning to let some of the strategic reserve
dribble out to help prices due to shut down Gulf platforms, except the oil
was coming out of the Strategic Reserve storage fields in Louisiana. And
unless the pumps and pipelines down there run on candle power instead of
electricity, they are gonna be down for a while....like maybe September
30th.
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