[frankthetank]

What a load...is Bush/Cheney going to be standing on the dock...waving the ship in among loud cheers from the crowd???

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n an ironic twist to the calamity that struck the Gulf Coast energy industry, some analysts even predict the market might see a brief mini-glut as refiners unscathed by Hurricane Katrina push their units as hard as they can and tankers stream into U.S. ports brimming with gasoline.

[MicroHydro]

This is BS. Even if the petrol were available, the excess tanker capacity is not.

[rogerhb]

Perhaps it will be like the "Little Ships of Dunkirk" in reverse.

[BabyPeanut]

BRIMMING?

[pip]

The US refiners were pushing as hard as they could before this happened. You can see from the graph above the glut that caused.

[shortonoil]

This seems to fall into the same category as Ghawar’s 260 bbs of reserve. Creations of the Spin Doctors.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Forty-five years ago, I passed my driving test and giddily slipped my driver's license into my wallet, ready to enjoy the freedom that a dollar's worth of gas - then 28 cents a gallon at the local Hess station - could provide. Several months later, those prices had just about doubled. My mother was waking me up in the early morning before school and handing me the keys to her station wagon so I could wait in long lines to buy a few gallons of gasoline - usually no more than $3 at a time - as officials rationed limited supplies. The Arab oil embargo of 1973 reshaped the U.S. economy and changed the way Americans thought about energy, leading to more than three decades of obsession over how to use less oil, send less of our money to the Middle East .