From: JTravis (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 07:08:35 PDT
You know one thing that our English friends could do for us to really
help us out right about now? Either have BP sell off their big US
refinery up in Ohio to someone who will reopen it, OR take it out of
mothballs and reopen it themselves. Our BIGGEST problem right now is
not the lack of crude oil available, it's the lack of operating refinery
capacity, and until we can build more (and until our government eases
restrictions on building them AND uses the tax structure on the oil
companies in a manner that "encourages" new capacity construction with
all this recent increase in revenue), then we need what there already IS
out there up and running- whether US owned or not.
Jay
Wes Knettle wrote:
> Try to also remember we have 3 states lower portions with complete
> devestation. An area larger the England. This widens the area of land
> inaccessability and slows the arrival of National Guard personnel.
> Today with New Orleans airport open the Guard is landing in strength
> as we write these notes. It would be interesting to see your
> governments capabilities if all of England south of an east-west line
> through Norwich was currently flooded or full of hurrican debris and
> damage and full of gangs roaming the city streets.
>
> I haven't seen any European country deal with a national catastrophe
> involving a sudden death toll in the thousands in their own country in
> recent history. So I can't see any yardstick that can be used to
> accurately score our current response.
>
> An American
>
> Wes Knettle
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