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To: tejek who wrote (248194)	8/30/2005 8:52:14 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

You can't have a city that produces a third of the nations oil be so vulnerable. It doesn't make sense. So when does the drilling start off the west coast and the first refinery start operation? <VBG>

To: tejek who wrote (248194)	8/30/2005 10:19:50 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

"Whether global warming is real or not" Which isn't really the big problem in Louisiana. The problem has to do with the way we've messed with the flow of the Mississippi. The silt is no longer deposited in the marshes, the river has been channelized so that it flows well into the Gulf before the silt is deposited. So, as the interstitial water is squeezed out of the sediments, as happens over time, there isn't any new deposits on top. If you load up Google Earth and follow the Mississippi out, you see this long, skinny piece of land on each side of the river that goes a long way out in the Gulf. That didn't exist in anywhere near that form until we started interfering. Which brings up a point. Just look around on the delta down there. There was a lot of development out there and not a lot of reason to be optimistic that they did better than Slidell.

To: tejek who wrote (248194)	9/1/2005 9:05:31 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

You can't have a city that produces a third of the nations oil be so vulnerable NewOrleans doesn't produce a third of the nations oil. The Gulf Coast in that area does. You can't do much to protect >900 oil rigs drilling and pumping oil from a hurricane. Have you ever been there? The place stinks, there's trash on the beach that washes up from the oil rigs and the beaches are not white, I definitely would not walk around barefooted. The only solution for the problem you noted is to diversify your sources and refining. But you can't drill for oil in Nevada or Iowa.... So when do you want to turn the coast of California into the Gulf of Mexico with >900 oil rigs and their associated refineries, filth, and risks? Say 15% of the nations oil from California and 15% comes from the Gulf? That would cut your risk concerns in half....