Storms and gas

[HURRICANEBOB]

Isaac lands, gas jumps. Just like the oil companies hoped. So I went to the White House page, and shot an email to Mr Obama to tell him he has no chance of my vote if he doesn't enact emergency price controls to stop the gouging. The economy is tough on all of us and folks in a disaster area don't need more gas costs to add to that problem. And quite frankly I'm tired of being ripped for more money everytime the oil companies can find some form of plausible deniability.

Now, I'm going back to my garage and fit my boat tow truck with solar panels and a table saw motor.

[Whitebass]

Isaac lands, gas jumps. Just like the oil companies hoped. So I went to the White House page, and shot an email to Mr Obama to tell him he has no chance of my vote if he doesn't enact emergency price controls to stop the gouging. The economy is tough on all of us and folks in a disaster area don't need more gas costs to add to that problem. And quite frankly I'm tired of being ripped for more money everytime the oil companies can find some form of plausible deniability.

Now, I'm going back to my garage and fit my boat tow truck with solar panels and a table saw motor.

I bet if you look hard enough, you can find an episode of Red Green making that table saw motor work like a charm on a boat. Plus his almight use of Duct tape to secure it to the boat..... Dad and I dvr his shows and laugh our tails off over some of the stuff he comes up with......

[mhall]

Excellent post. I HATE BIG OIL with every small fiber in my body. I HATE them so bad it's not natural or healthy. They are EVIL SCUMBAG THIEVES in every fashion known to mankind. They shut down the rigs and made everybody go home for 40mph winds, The **** storm wasn't even a Hurricane until it hit land. They deal with winds greater than that all the time. The EVIL SCUMBAGS look for every excuse known to man to take advantage of the American people..

I HATE BIG OIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mean Morone]

Big oil has fed my family. NOONE talks about the taxes, mandates and heavy handedness of our government which equals higher prices.

I HATE BIG GOVERNMENT!!!

[Chubminnow]

Makes me wonder how all of the guys at the top of the food chain are connected...is the government bone connected to the oil bone, is the oil bone connected to the weather bone? Are they all in cahoots for the purpose of greed?

[TimE]

Maybe its time to open more oilfields?
Lay some pipe?
Its ridiculous to say the platforms shouldn't be shutdown! Guess those workers need to risk their lives to save 10¢ a gallon.

The real issue is gas prices before and after the storm. Is big oil responsible for the drought? Will welfare grubbing ethanol farmers get the same treatment next spring?

[mhall]

Maybe its time to open more oilfields?
Lay some pipe?
Its ridiculous to say the platforms shouldn't be shutdown! Guess those workers need to risk their lives to save 10¢ a gallon.

The real issue is gas prices before and after the storm. Is big oil responsible for the drought? Will welfare grubbing ethanol farmers get the same treatment next spring?

I said that because the winds were 40mph when they went by and they knew it and cleared them out anyway. They were not going to be in harms way on a flippin dinky do tropical depression, it only became a Hurricane when it made landfall. They have places to get out of the weather on those things you know.

Also I HATE BIG GOVERNMENT TO.
STILL HATE BIG OIL.....Sorry Scott, I like you...

I also like laying pipe...

[MrSplitshot]

Some economist pinhead on CNN was talking about how the oil companies had to raise prices now when they knew disruption in supply was emminent so that they could smother some of the demand.

Uhhhmmmm, yeah.

I'm sure we all noticed drastically fewer cars on the road here this week, what with all that lowered demand due to the higher gas prices.

Personally, I just saw the same amount of people buying gas and driving...but walking a little funny when they got out of their cars, because of the anal rape the received at the pump.

Oil Companies have got it made. They can do anything they want, whenever they want, and everybody still lines up to buy their crap.

I also like laying pipe...

LMAO

[mhall]

Some economist pinhead on CNN was talking about how the oil companies had to raise prices now when they knew disruption in supply was emminent so that they could smother some of the demand.

Uhhhmmmm, yeah.

I'm sure we all noticed drastically fewer cars on the road here this week, what with all that lowered demand due to the higher gas prices.

Personally, I just saw the same amount of people buying gas and driving...but walking a little funny when they got out of their cars, because of the anal rape the received at the pump.

Oil Companies have got it made. They can do anything they want, whenever they want, and everybody still lines up to buy their crap.



LMAO

Amen Brian Amen......This is part of my point exactly. I mean good Lord, how much profit is enough for this goons...

[bassin_bug]

I said that because the winds were 40mph when they went by and they knew it and cleared them out anyway. They were not going to be in harms way on a flippin dinky do tropical depression, it only became a Hurricane when it made landfall. They have places to get out of the weather on those things you know.

Also I HATE BIG GOVERNMENT TO.
STILL HATE BIG OIL.....Sorry Scott, I like you...

I also like laying pipe...

SO FAR, that 'dinky do tropical depression' has delivered to my house 60 mph winds and 12 inches of rain; it has been sucking water out of the Gulf. I walked out on the front porch at 2 o'clock this morning and it was raining so hard the security light looked like it was in a fog. We have been getting bands off that hurricane/tropical depression since early Tuesday morning and the weather report says that it will last until Sunday. We were also under a tornado watch until 10 p.m. last night. Things are calm right now because we are in between the weather bands and they are not coming in as fast as they were.

Wednesday afternoon my sister was leaving her house on Mobile Bay because it is less than a mile from the water and her garage was beginning to flood. She was going to one she owns in Saraland and had to drive up I-10. She said the water was over the interstate and State Troopers were there closing the road; her's was the last car they let go through.

It isn't the wind that does the most damage during a hurricane although it does some damage, it's the water being pushed by the wind. You mentioned that the oil platforms have a place to get out of the weather and you are correct up to a point. First of all, when the oil companies started evacuation procedures they expected the winds to be 80-100 mph and they did reach 80 with gusts up to 100 mph for a while. Everyone can't just run into a hole and hide because it takes time to secure loose equipment, turn off valves and go through shutdown procedures to protect the employees and prevent an oil spill.

A few years ago my first cousin was offshore in the Gulf when a hurricane entered. Their boss told them to go down into the living quarters and refused call for the helicopter to come get them and take them to shore. The wind blew the platform over and a load of pipe rolled in on him; they found his body about a week later.

I think someone mentioned there should be more drilling for oil in the United States. The state of Alabama has recently approved more than 200 oil and mineral leases, some are new and some are renewal. Some of the oil companies are doing the geological exploration already. Each oil and mineral lease application has to be printed in our local newspaper and there have been scads of them lately.

I don't know if the price of gas has gone up because of the holiday weekend or the hurricane. The prices started going up here while the tropical depression was so far out in the ocean they didn't know which path it would take.

[mhall]

OMG PEOPLE LISTEN CLOSELY. I was referring to BEFORE the **** thing hit land and turned into a Hurricane, not after...

I was not at the time nor am I now referring to anything but WHEN IT WENT PAST THE OIL PLATFORMS!!!


Why do I come to this site???

[mperry]

The Louisville Courier Journal had an article about the prices jumping and the title was about all I could read. Gas prices jump due to Holiday and Hurricane. Sounds to me like it was going to jump regardless of the hurricane.