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To: one_less who wrote (264343)	12/12/2005 6:48:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1587785

A third of the country's exports go through NO. Twenty five percent of the country's oil is refined there. Is that good enough for you? Definitely, when you demonstrate for me that these things would no longer be true if we rebuild on higher ground. Well it depends on where you want build. NO is a major transfer point for shipping.....big ships come in from sea; unload their cargo and then smaller ships take the cargo upriver to the Midwest. For export, the reverse happens........small ships bring the cargo downriver and unload in NO and then the cargo is transferred to ocean going ships. If you want to move NO further north, its my understanding that the ocean going ships can not go much further north than NO. That would mean dredging the Mississippi......which would cost billions of dollars and then rebuilding the 4th largest port in the country up river.....more billions. "It follows from this that the port will have to be revived and, one would assume, the city as well. The ports around New Orleans are located as far north as they can be and still be accessed by ocean-going vessels. The need for ships to be able to pass each other in the waterways, which narrow to the north, adds to the problem. Besides, the Highway 190 bridge in Baton Rouge blocks the river going north. New Orleans is where it is for a reason: The United States needs a city right there. New Orleans is not optional for the United States' commercial infrastructure. It is a terrible place for a city to be located, but exactly the place where a city must exist. With that as a given, a city will return there because the alternatives are too devastating. The harvest is coming, and that means that the port will have to be opened soon. As in Iraq, premiums will be paid to people prepared to endure the hardships of working in New Orleans. But in the end, the city will return because it has to." stratfor.com And I suspect you would want to move the separate Port Fourchon, the oil port located further south of NO's port, because it too is under sea level. And then you would have to move the oil refineries in the NO area as well because you wouldn't have people to work in them. Besides, you've moved the oil port further north from the refineries and they need to be relatively close together. That will cost more billions. And then you would have to build a new city pretty much from scratch which will cost even more billions. What do you think?