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Soooo....You ready for gas to sky rocket? - Mazda6 / Atenza
You should see the mass hysteria that is happening right now...They are talking about opening contraflow (having all major roadways leaving the city only) on Saturday...The damn thing will barely be in the Gulf by then...Obviously gas prices will start rising soon, as well, as speculators begin to speculate...Last I heard it was already up $2 a barrel and that was at about 11am EST.
Let the panicking commence.
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Poet, we've talked about it a few times, but I've got to tell ya, I'm happy to be home in Cali right now and not at work.
The standard operating procedure for us is to stay at the rig until the last personnel is gone, and then we can beat feet.
Normally they wait until the last minute, good for them.
We only make about 10 knots, bad for us.
Now, I'm not saying I'd be worried for my life if I got slammed by a Cat.
5 while off-shore, by I will say that it makes things interesting, and you'd better have your A game.
Got my fingers crossed my man.
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That's makes two of us...I'm really not too concerned right now, it's wayyyy too early to be worried...But I guess the memories of Katrina are still fresh around here because never in my life have a seen this kind of buzz about a storm that was still in the Caribbean...They're talking evacuations on Saturday and the damn thing won't even be in the Gulf yet...It's just odd to witness...Ah well, it's a hurry up and wait game now...But it's good to know you're home and safe, man...If I need a place to go, Sacramento doesn't seem like a bad place to visit.
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While you are out here, Drive on down to visit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/32.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/32.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/32.gif)
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Quote: That's makes two of us...I'm really not too concerned right now, it's wayyyy too early to be worried...But I guess the memories of Katrina are still fresh around here because never in my life have a seen this kind of buzz about a storm that was still in the Caribbean...They're talking evacuations on Saturday and the damn thing won't even be in the Gulf yet...It's just odd to witness...Ah well, it's a hurry up and wait game now...But it's good to know you're home and safe, man...If I need a place to go, Sacramento doesn't seem like a bad place to visit.
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Brother, if it comes to that drop me a PM, and we'll take it from there.
I promise, no hurricanes in Sacramento.
Can't make the same claims for earth quakes.
I've still got two weeks here, I'll be heading back just in time to see if there's any real destruction off-shore.
I'm watching with you.
It's funny, people here at home always ask how people in the South get ready for a hurricane.
I tell them, one of two ways;
They run for it, or they run to the liquor store.
I just went to the liquor store, I've always got to be ready for earth quakes.
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Quote: While you are out here, Drive on down to visit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/32.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/32.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/32.gif)
Lol..If I were to get out that way I definitely would...Hell, If I were to come all the way out there then it'd probably be for good, lol.
Quote: Brother, if it comes to that drop me a PM, and we'll take it from there.
I promise, no hurricanes in Sacramento.
Can't make the same claims for earth quakes.
I've still got two weeks here, I'll be heading back just in time to see if there's any real destruction off-shore.
I'm watching with you.
It's funny, people here at home always ask how people in the South get ready for a hurricane.
I tell them, one of two ways;
They run for it, or they run to the liquor store.
I just went to the liquor store, I've always got to be ready for earth quakes.
That's exactly right...We're heading to the store in just a bit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/36.gif) The wife and her mom already have plans to leave Saturday just to be safe, with her being pregnant and all...I'll probably be sticking around at least through the weekend before I make any decisions...I definitely can't see leaving before it's even in the gulf...And it's moving so damn slow that it may not be until mid-next week before we know something...But I can guarantee one thing, gas prices will be soaring within the next few days...Fill up now while it's "cheap".
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Hurricane Season should just be renamed "Gas Price Scare Season"
Considering all those hurricanes that have made landfall before, shouldn't we be paying $10,000 a gallon for gas now?
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Pretty much.
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Quote: Considering all those hurricanes that have made landfall before, shouldn't we be paying $10,000 a gallon for gas now?
Free car with ever fill up?
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Quote: Free car with ever fill up?
US automakers wish!
Usually all you get is a free car wash that also comes with a broken antenna and water spots.
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$.12 since this morning...Let the fun begin.
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Not looking forward to this at all but I'm 8 hours from the Gulf.
I hope everything goes the best it can.
Stay safe down there man!
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This is always so phucking retarded to me.
The prices should in no way what so ever be effected by any hurricane that has not already "affected" production....
Such as Katrina did.
By the time any of the oil they are currently pumping would actually hit the market it will be a while from now, so if the prices are going to change it should be then and not now.
This is just a convenient way of ripping off the consumer because it is in the here and now and people will have a reason to believe it's why the price has changed.
Maybe we'll just have to get some of those oil producing insects to work and lower the oil prices...right?
This is what I'm talking about:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/envi...icle4133668.ece
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The price of a gallon of gas says that because the 5-day forecast show the storm being right on top of Louisiana, everyone's going to go apeshit and overreact in terms of oil prices and all these doomsday theories for New Orleans.
Which, last time I checked, wasn't the only city in Louisiana.
Btw, anyone remember the Alabama and Mississippi coasts when they received the highest storm surge (28ft) of any storm in the Western Hemisphere?
You know, the storm surge that was higher than 1969's Hurricane Camille which came ashore with 180+mph winds (220mph gusts)?
Get ready for lopsided reporting folks!
If you're not already used to it, that is.
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Lopsided reporting is a myth (IMG:style_emoticons/default/3.gif)
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I've said it a million times, but once more will not hurt.
If a hurricane wipes out the Houston Ship Channel, you won't have to worry about gas prices because you won't be able to get any.
If a hurricane wipes out Port Fourchon, you will be feeling real pain at the pump.
http://www.portfourchon.com/
These two places are responsible for the majority of domestic production, drilling, and refining of GOM gas and oil.
Last I looked, Port Fourchon is in the cone and not far from the forecast path.
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Quote: The price of a gallon of gas says that because the 5-day forecast show the storm being right on top of Louisiana, everyone's going to go apeshit and overreact in terms of oil prices and all these doomsday theories for New Orleans.
Which, last time I checked, wasn't the only city in Louisiana.
Btw, anyone remember the Alabama and Mississippi coasts when they received the highest storm surge (28ft) of any storm in the Western Hemisphere?
You know, the storm surge that was higher than 1969's Hurricane Camille which came ashore with 180+mph winds (220mph gusts)?
Get ready for lopsided reporting folks!
If you're not already used to it, that is.
I sense a tad bit of bitterness..But I couldn't agree more...I have family who live(d) on the Mississippi gulf coast and they were completely wiped out;
The difference is that they aren't a major port...Like it or not, New Orleans is an important part of the US economy...I don't agree with the overreactions nor the lopsided reporting but something that is making this all the more "news worthy", and I use that looser than the high school prom queen, is that the 3 year anniversary of Katrina is Friday.
And gas isn't going up because the storm MIGHT hit New Orleans, gas is going up because the storm MIGHT/PROBABLY will impact the rigs in the Gulf...And what Sac6 just adds to that problem...If Port Fouchon or or the Houston ship Channel get wiped out, then we'll all have bigger issues.
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Poet, you bring up a valid point and so does Biz.
The question remains: Would Katrina have been a major story if the levees had held?
Rita was a full Cat 5 when it made land-fall, and take it from somebody who has worked in Cameron and partied at Holly Beach, the destruction was total.
I defy you to go and find a sign that Holly Beach ever even existed.
Yet, without the "tragedy" there was no mass-media story.
At least not to the extent of the Katrina coverage.
Naturally, there is a simple reason for this.
Rita didn't destroy a major city, but really, Katrina didn't either.
It was the lack of vision, disaster planning, and local governments inability to properly maintain the levees that made Katrina and the destruction of NO a story.
So like an old wound that never properly healed, we are looking at what could be a repeat disaster.
The fact that this "might" hit NO, and is bring up so many memories for all of us before anything has even happened means something.
I'm just not sure what yet.
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Quote: I sense a tad bit of bitterness..But I couldn't agree more...I have family who live(d) on the Mississippi gulf coast and they were completely wiped out;
The difference is that they aren't a major port...Like it or not, New Orleans is an important part of the US economy...I don't agree with the overreactions nor the lopsided reporting but something that is making this all the more "news worthy", and I use that looser than the high school prom queen, is that the 3 year anniversary of Katrina is Friday.
And gas isn't going up because the storm MIGHT hit New Orleans, gas is going up because the storm MIGHT/PROBABLY will impact the rigs in the Gulf...And what Sac6 just adds to that problem...If Port Fouchon or or the Houston ship Channel get wiped out, then we'll all have bigger issues.
Bitterness?
No. But I prefer things to be fair and I don't think any of the major newstations or newspapers I watched and read three years ago managed that, which is a shame.
Thousands of people died in Katrina and it seems like the only place that had any trouble at all was New Orleans.
If New Orleans had that 28ft+ storm surge...well, the city would probably still be underwater.
Now that is scary as hell.
Obviously the people there went through some serious shit after the levees broke, there's no disputing that.
Quote: Poet, you bring up a valid point and so does Biz.
The question remains: Would Katrina have been a major story if the levees had held?
Rita was a full Cat 5 when it made land-fall, and take it from somebody who has worked in Cameron and partied at Holly Beach, the destruction was total.
I defy you to go and find a sign that Holly Beach ever even existed.
Yet, without the "tragedy" there was no mass-media story.
At least not to the extent of the Katrina coverage.
Naturally, there is a simple reason for this.
Rita didn't destroy a major city, but really, Katrina didn't either.
It was the lack of vision, disaster planning, and local governments inability to properly maintain the levees that made Katrina and the destruction of NO a story.
So like an old wound that never properly healed, we are looking at what could be a repeat disaster.
The fact that this "might" hit NO, and is bring up so many memories for all of us before anything has even happened means something.
I'm just not sure what yet.
Rita was a cat3 at landfall, having undergone almost the same exact rapid intensification as Katrina before it, only to succumb to the friction of interaction with land.
Only the Labor Day Hurricane, Hurricane Camille, and (retroactively) Hurricane Andrew were cat5 at landfall.
But check out what I just ---->found<----
So you see Gustav going on his course into the Louisiana area.
But see that blob to the east of Florida?
Hanna is being pushed southwesterly and this model is calling for it to pass through the straights of florida then pull up to the Alabama/Mississippi coastline.
If that happened they might as well just nuke the fucking area.
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Quote: Rita was a cat3 at landfall, having undergone almost the same exact rapid intensification as Katrina before it, only to succumb to the friction of interaction with land.
You sir are absolutely correct, I miss typed.
It was the third Cat 5 hurricane that season, and was indeed Cat 3 at the time of landfall.
Note the way Gustav may follow the coastline for an extended period, versus going straight into shore.
That would be very ugly for Louisiana, eastern Texas, and anybody who uses gas in their cars.
Hanna just looks like a randy bitch, I can't deal with that right now.
It looks like I might have trouble getting work 12 in days.
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