At Least Ten U.S. Airports Face Closure Due to Jet Fuel Shortages

[ECH1969]

August 31, 2005… Airlines and oil companies are working on plans to supply jet fuel to at least ten U.S. airports that could be shut down due to a lack of jet fuel caused by refinery and pipeline shutdowns from hurricane Katrina. The airports in most jeopardy for closure include Atlanta, Charlotte, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers, Orlando, Tampa, Washington Dulles and West Palm Beach.

AAG has learned that ChevronTexaco and Shell had cargoes loaded prior to the shutdowns destined for Florida ports. However, with the Colonial and Plantation pipelines shutdown due to a lost of power it could be sometime for shipments to reach airports from Atlanta to Washington D.C.

With future supply uncertain, airlines are working on plans to allocate jet fuel at critically short airports.

http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=3343

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. this is gonna be interesting...

Im in West Palm Beach, how the hell do we get out if there is a hurricane coming?? huh jebbie????

[LynneSin]

39. It depends...

...if you're filthy rich and love the Bushes they'll come get you.

If you're not one of those 2 dozen folks you're pretty much out of luck

[CatholicEdHead]

2. Would this be the end for Delta Airlines?

as Atlanta is one of their major hubs.

[distantearlywarning]

6. If it is, I will find it hard to feel sympathetic for them.

I heard the governor of LA telling a reporter yesterday that they begged them to fly people out of NO on Sunday, and that they could have done so but refused because they didn't want to fly empty planes in. Once again, sacrificing people for the almighty dollar.

Cry me a fucking river for Delta airlines. :eyes: :nopity:

[Geoff R. Casavant]

11. I wouldn't care about Delta

except I have a very good friend who has been a flight attendant with them for 18 years and wants to retire with something resembling a pension.

[saigon68]

40. Not after the Neocon corporate thugs bleed the airline dry

Their pensions will be liner for a cat box

NOT WORTH THE PAPER THEY ARE WRITTEN ON.(LOOK AT UAL)

[Jacobin]

3. Washington Dulles?

Bwaaahaahhahahaha

[RoyGBiv]

4. Dulles?

Why Dulles? I understand the others, but Dulles? Is it supplied from LA?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24. Why Dulles

The fuel is delivered by way of the Colonial pipeline, which, on its way from Louisiana to the northeastern US, runs through Fairfax County, Virginia, where Dulles is located.

[RoyGBiv]

31. Thanks ....

Learn something new every day. I didn't realize the pipeline ran that far.

[JanusAscending]

33. Pipeline a lot longer than you think guys!!

I saw a map of the pipeline on TV today. It runs all the way up the East coast to New England!! Now that's a SCARY THOUGHT!:wow: :scared:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. Correction

A graphic in the Washington Post business section on Thursday shows that are two pipelines going up through the southeast from New Orleans. The Plantation pipeline parallels the Colonial pipeline. According to the paper, it terminates near Washington National Airport. The graphic shows one branch leading to Dulles and another to Washington National.

Oil Struggles, Gasoline Surges

The graphic may not be available online.

[stevedeshazer]

5. The bottom has fallen out.

I'm stocking up on food and water.

[KamaAina]

7. Has the whole country flipped its lid?

Armed mobs roaming the streets in N.O. Gas lines in Atlanta. Now this. It's like I'm an extra in some cheesy disaster movie on basic cable. :scared:

edit: speling

[0rganism]

12. I'm holding out for the rampaging army of zombie braineaters.

We'll know it's officially B-movie fucked when the undead rise from their graves to feast upon the flesh of the living.

[Dudley_DUright]

18. They exist on the internets already

They are called Freepers.

[tmooses]

32. This disaster movie started when the election was stolen in 2000.

n/t

[yorkiemommie1]

34. Amen to that

n/t

[UDenver20]

8. Damnit...

I am supposed to go to Paris tomorrow for vacation...

I swear I'll scream if ATL shuts down...

GOD I NEED THIS VACATION...

[beetbox]

9. Aircraft are responsible for 3.5% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide

Vital Signs Fact of the Week

Planes Utilize Most Fuel During Takeoff

The world's airlines use some 205 million tons of aviation fuel (kerosene) each year, producing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and methane. Jet fuel is the second-largest expense to airlines after labor and can amount to 20 percent of companies' operating expenses.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 1999 found that aircraft are responsible for 3.5 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Flight is one of the fastest-growing emission sources, and no technological fixes are in sight.

[Massacure]

14. The 747 gets about 1 mile per 5 gallons of fuel.

But if it is carrying 300 people, that is 300 passenger miles per 5 gallons of fuel, about 60 miles per gallon. It is better than 300 people driving alone in a SUV that gets 20 miles per gallon each.

[physioex]

17. True....

Plus it carries a large amount of cargo which pays for some of its keep....

[beetbox]

29. Neither are particularly good modes of transportation

Light rail-bicycles-small autos.

Less long distance leisure travel

This costs a penny a day to operate


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[Oggy]

38. Except

That the emissions occuring at altitude cause the CO2 to be in a better place to trap IR waves and therefore the effect is more prenounced.

[napi21]

10. OH SHIT! The troublen airlines need this crap now, huh?

My son workd for an airline based out of Atlanta, and they are struggling for their life! I hope out Dear Gov. makes sure some of that fuel he's talking aobut coming into the ports are headed for the airports!

[Ilsa]

13. Deleted by Ilsa.

[0007]

15. Is the country grinding to a screeching halt?

[Erika]

16. Isn't it strange how Florida airports come out so good? n/t

[gate of the sun]

19. well that was quick

do we really live this close to the edge or is something being created here?

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. The refineries went to just in time production

back in the 90's. The oil companies inventory very little fuel at this point. We are now going to suffer from the result of their greed and short sightedness.

[kainah]

21. I'm afraid we really live this close to the edge

Most American households are one paycheck from being in the streets and, since W took office, I'm afraid the country isn't much better off.

[DemCam]

26. In one sense, we all live this close

to the edge. The thing that makes all of it happen is electricity...and when that goes, all of it goes...our lives as we know it.

Fragile.

And without it, we become...savages?...survivors?...deceased?

We are watching a very powerful reminder.

[wli]

27. The US' Gini coefficient was worse than Turkmenistan in 2000

And it's worse than Cote d'Ivoire now.

[osaMABUSh]

22. remember Y2K ? well, it finally happened

We survived that BS about a man made disaster caused by lazy programming of 2 digits instead of 4 digits. Now, we messed with a real Mother - Mother Nature - and a Y2K-like event finally hit the USA. Remember the tsunami? Well, things are not looking real good here on Earth. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are dire need of some real leaders.

[TrogL]

45. It wasn't lazy programming

At the time those programs were written, drive space cost bigtime hard dollars and systems were expected to last five years.

I started whining and bitching about Y2K in 1991 and we were good to go in plenty of time.

[uppityperson]

23. I was wondering about jets, figured I probably wasn't flying anywhere

for a while

[Krupskaya]

25. Jayzus, is this America?

Or some tin-pot third-world dicta--oh wait, don't answer that.

[Porcupine]

28. Did I just hear a Big-Ass domino drop?

Yep, Scratch one airline industry. Will the next economic domino please stand ready to fall.

[neverforget]

30. I flying back to Montana to visit my family tomorrow. I wonder if I'll

get stuck there? :shrug:

[mom cat]

35. Resource wars about to hit US.

[gauguin57]

36. Oooooo Kaaaayyyyy ... that's it. If you need me, I'll be under my bed ...

... eating dried lentils by the handful.

It's gettin' too scary out there.

[AFSCME girl]

44. I here ya, gauguin57...

I feel something is brewing ~ not sure what ~ but something......

AFSCME girl

[LosinIt]

37. OOOhh NOOOhh, not West Palm Beach

I know this should be the least of anyone's worries at this point, but my niece is supposed to be getting married on the beach in West Palm this weekend and they are flying down from Vermont and other point in the NE. I can't go for money/work issues, but the rest of the family is supposed to be leaving today and tomorrow. I just hope that all of their plans aren't upset. Put into perspective things could be much worse for them, but she is such a good girl, I hate to see anything bad ever happen to her.

Hopefully, everyone will get there and then will have to stay on the beach! Maybe they will just go up to the gulf region and work on disaster relief instead. There, I feel better now.

[Massachusetts]

41. Break open in Case of Emergency

[rainbow4321]

42. Looks like it is time for a big grocery shopping trip before prices rise

Imagine the food prices when the stuff cannot get to where it needs to go...this is gonna get bad, bad, bad.