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Wanna bet the hurricane is not going to blow up a bunch of oil rigs,
refineries and loading ports?

Not me.

This may be the $3.00 gas scenario they talk about ... like about
tuesday!.


There was a show on FX about 3 months ago, called "Oil Storm". Is Katrina
the real life "Oil Storm"?

Oil crisis film takes market fears to living rooms

Deepa Babington, Reuters
Think $55 a barrel oil is bad? Wait till a hurricane knocks out a U.S.
pipeline and a port at the same time that militants are killing hostages in
Saudi Arabia, sending oil prices over $150 a barrel.

That's the premise of "Oil Storm," a television docudrama set to premiere in
the United States on Sunday. The movie uses exaggerated real life events and
fictional characters to examine America's dependence on oil and the havoc a
major disruption in supply could wreak on ordinary people.

The movie depicts -- albeit in the extreme -- what energy markets have spent
much of the past year fretting about: hurricanes that can rip apart oil
infrastructure and war and turbulence in the Middle East, which have driven
crude prices to record highs.

And the writers aim to show why the intricacies of oil rigs and oil reserves
should be as much a concern for average Americans, with their taste for gas
guzzling SUVs and summer road trips, as they are for traders at the New York
Mercantile Exchange.

"Everything is so interconnected that anything that happens in Saudi Arabia
or China will have an impact on oil, and therefore an impact on you or I in
terms of what happens at the pump," said Caroline Levy, its British producer
and co-writer.

http://www.fxnetworks.com/show....html

Watch the Promo at the link. I don't know if FX plans to air it again.

wrote in message
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Wanna bet the hurricane is not going to blow up a bunch of oil rigs,
refineries and loading ports?

Not me.

This may be the $3.00 gas scenario they talk about ... like about
tuesday!.

It's 28 cents higher than that at the marinas down here already. I'm
expecting $4/gallon on the water. That translates to a dollar fifty per
mile for my boat.


My 17' Outrage gets about 4.5 mpg with a carbed 2-stroke. I may have to
repower with an E-tec or a 4-stroke and start using only the small boat.

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:36:00 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


wrote in message
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Wanna bet the hurricane is not going to blow up a bunch of oil rigs,
refineries and loading ports?

Not me.

This may be the $3.00 gas scenario they talk about ... like about
tuesday!.

It's 28 cents higher than that at the marinas down here already. I'm
expecting $4/gallon on the water. That translates to a dollar fifty per
mile for my boat.


My 17' Outrage gets about 4.5 mpg with a carbed 2-stroke. I may have to
repower with an E-tec or a 4-stroke and start using only the small boat.


My marina is at $2.98 right now. At 8gph cruising, running around the bay gets
to be a costly experience.

--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."

wrote:
Wanna bet the hurricane is not going to blow up a bunch of oil rigs,
refineries and loading ports?

Not me.

This may be the $3.00 gas scenario they talk about ... like about
tuesday!.

Just read a business report that oil futures are trading up $4.00 a
barrel to somewhere in the $70+ range.

This sucks!!!

I am wondering when this will put a damper on the economy. I read a
different report today stating that oil prices run in line with
economic growth, so that this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I would
tend to agree except the growth in oil prices has been exponential
when compared to that of the economy. As long as there aren't any
supply line shortages we should be okay. Otherwise, guess I'll be
sleeping in my office.

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:52:00 -0400, wrote:

Wanna bet the hurricane is not going to blow up a bunch of oil rigs,
refineries and loading ports?

Not me.

This may be the $3.00 gas scenario they talk about ... like about
tuesday!.