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Gas shortage due to the hurricane
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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 2442853" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>According to the news yesterday, six Texas refineries had to temporarily shut down because they were without electrical power. Tough to operate with no power. They included the big refinery in Beaumont, which is the world's largest.</p><p></p><p>We just saw a storm that drove tens upon tens of thousands of people out of their homes and devastated hundreds of square miles of housing and infrastructure. A "once in 500 years storm," as I heard one meteorologist call it. Not sure how some of you can believe that refining operations aren't affected by that and can just continue right long as if nothing happened.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, all those refineries are back online and Texas currently has a record supply of already-refined gasoline in storage tanks -- but many of those tanks are in flooded or flood-damaged area. The real problem was getting the gas from those tanks to retailers over submerged roads, rails, and bridges, As someone else said, a temporary distribution problem.</p><p></p><p>Hoarders make the situation much worse than it actually is, and the media feeds those idiots. That doesn't mean there wasn't a real issue with getting the gas from the places it was stored to the places where people could buy it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 2442853, member: 17"] According to the news yesterday, six Texas refineries had to temporarily shut down because they were without electrical power. Tough to operate with no power. They included the big refinery in Beaumont, which is the world's largest. We just saw a storm that drove tens upon tens of thousands of people out of their homes and devastated hundreds of square miles of housing and infrastructure. A "once in 500 years storm," as I heard one meteorologist call it. Not sure how some of you can believe that refining operations aren't affected by that and can just continue right long as if nothing happened. Having said that, all those refineries are back online and Texas currently has a record supply of already-refined gasoline in storage tanks -- but many of those tanks are in flooded or flood-damaged area. The real problem was getting the gas from those tanks to retailers over submerged roads, rails, and bridges, As someone else said, a temporary distribution problem. Hoarders make the situation much worse than it actually is, and the media feeds those idiots. That doesn't mean there wasn't a real issue with getting the gas from the places it was stored to the places where people could buy it. [/QUOTE]
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