Good luck, New Orleans
Aug. 28th, 2005 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdOne of the places I'd wanted to see sometime was the French Quarter in New Orleans. In person, rather than via a webcam. It wasn't in my top three, but it was something I wanted to do. If you pray, pray for Louisiana. I've never heard that National Weather Service say things like, "POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS" before.
Oil futures are up, a lot, to $70/barrel in off-day trading. We're down enough in output right now (685000 bpd, 4795000 pbw) that if you subtract that from the current crude stock increase per week - something I did not consider sustainable - then you go to very roughly a negative delta of very roughly 4Mpbw. At current consumption levels and refining rates, that brings the total advance crude stockpile for the United States down to zero in approximately seventy-five days, not counting the strategic reserve. Mister Gaeta, start the clock.
Of course, one presumes that supplies will be back online well before then, given the spectacularly enormous profit opportunity.
Not that this is my primary line of thought, but I suggest that construction supply firms and large-scale home-repair-materials suppliers will also have unexpectedly good sales over the next year.
In other news, one more hanger, and I'll finally be done making the wire holders for the newsletters at NASFiC. God damn this is boring.
Here, have a flower.
Untitled, Yellow
Thursday's miles: 0.5
Friday's miles: 3.2
Sunday's miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 410.6. Saw a really cool horse off in the fields - I wonder if it's wild?
Miles to Rivendell: 47.7
Oil futures are up, a lot, to $70/barrel in off-day trading. We're down enough in output right now (685000 bpd, 4795000 pbw) that if you subtract that from the current crude stock increase per week - something I did not consider sustainable - then you go to very roughly a negative delta of very roughly 4Mpbw. At current consumption levels and refining rates, that brings the total advance crude stockpile for the United States down to zero in approximately seventy-five days, not counting the strategic reserve. Mister Gaeta, start the clock.
Of course, one presumes that supplies will be back online well before then, given the spectacularly enormous profit opportunity.
Not that this is my primary line of thought, but I suggest that construction supply firms and large-scale home-repair-materials suppliers will also have unexpectedly good sales over the next year.
In other news, one more hanger, and I'll finally be done making the wire holders for the newsletters at NASFiC. God damn this is boring.
Here, have a flower.
Untitled, Yellow
Thursday's miles: 0.5
Friday's miles: 3.2
Sunday's miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 410.6. Saw a really cool horse off in the fields - I wonder if it's wild?
Miles to Rivendell: 47.7
