Gulf Oil Disruption and Government Ineptitude

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Report from Gulf about oil production disruption, transportation woes, and a situation on the brink. Government botching at nearly every turn.

Letter to the Editor
by Paul Noel

First some basic info I have learned from news reports. The Shell Refinery at Pascagoula Ms is nearly destroyed. This one alone would kick the US into crisis mode. It is unlikely to operate for some time. The damage includes destruction of cooling towers and many other things. We were nearly at crisis mode before the storm.

Next a careful observation of the location near my house (Wall Triana Highway) which is the major North South feeder between Madison Alabama and the freight coming and going to Tennessee shows that there are no commercial trucks operating on the road. This road usually sees about 50,000 vehicles a day. The only traffic is local cars.

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Here is how it runs, You see about 4 days more and the inventory in the grocery stores etc will be running out. (For those reading such posts who cannot think, this is a current condition forecast and could be changed if things are dealt with properly) Currently the gasoline we are being shipped is reserves from the refinery stocks pre-storm. These will run out in about 4 days. Then we see a complete shut down and serious civil and other disruption. Most of the people where I live are pretty decent folk and I expect them to pull together but this is most serious. If no food comes to the stores and the plants stop shipping one sees loss of jobs and loss of life.

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After this is all over we need to have a "War Crimes" trial for the people whose CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE lead to the death of thousands. This needs to be founded after the legal processes that we used to try the Nazi and Japanese war criminals after WW-II. It deserves nothing less and anything less is to assure that this happens again.


http://pesn.com/2005/09/06/9600161_Gulf_Oil_Disaster/

I fully agree with him. The incompetant bungers that have been running this mess need more than to be simply fired. They need to be charged with murder.

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