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Look at a map of US oil production and refining, compare with the path of the hurricane and were it hit.
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Here in WA we have been repeatedly told by the Oil companies that our refinaries in and around Seattle produce all the gas for our entire area. The oil here does not go through the Gulf it comes in by sea via the Pacific Ocean. So now we know that they are always lying to us. Oil prices are effected by everything from a single plane crash
near a refinary to some curse some voodoo princess placed on the head of Mobile. Hell everything is an excuse to raise prices even if it is utter BS. That kind of price gowging must be stopped. I heard, albeit not confirmed, that the Hawain Governor put a freeze on the price of gas in his state.
Fuel taxes are both State and Federal with WA being one of the higest in the country now. Once her election was confirmed, our new govenor raised the tax by 10 cents over four years. However the very next day the price of gas went up by 10 cents at all the stations. "The new Tax." WTF, the tax hadn't even taken effect yet, and once it did it was only going to be 4 cents! So the station owners are ripping us off and using the tax as an excuse to do it figuring that people are too stupid to figure it out. Hell even if they do figure it out, what can they do? Everyone one else raised their prices by 10 cents, so all is good in the land of the rich and getting richer.
Whent he Exxon Valdies (sp) went a ground in 89 they raised the price of gas saying that the spill was so great that we had a gas shortage. That turned out to be bull but it worked so no, I do not believe a good God damn thing the oil businessmen say. They are all greedy bastards willing to rob you blind to make more money than God.
The people who run gastations raise their prices to make money, thats it.
As to wall street being up over the natural weather event that just occured, well Wall Street is all about money and nothing makes money like natural disasters and death. More more that is destroyed the more they love it. Why you ask, because the things that are destroyed must be rebuilt. Rebuilding costs money and that money helps companies to grow.