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Alaska Pipeline Closed
« on: August 07, 2006, 11:25:39 AM »
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In a blow to drivers already struggling with high gas prices, BP shut down the biggest oilfield in the United States, cutting off about 8 percent of the nation's oil supply. BP said it had found "unexpectedly severe corrosion" in the pipeline in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. The U.S. Energy Department will consider loaning emergency supplies to refiners caught short of supply, a spokesman said today.

http://www.cnn.com/

Everybody, panic! :o
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2006, 01:09:45 PM »
I'm not going to panic, but I do feel like curling up into a fetal position and just giving up.
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2006, 01:34:19 PM »
It does make me want to get a car that's powered on something other than gasoline. Prices are going to get crazy.
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2006, 02:02:13 PM »
Well, here's to riding my bike to work for the next year. Hopefully winter isn't too bad...
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2006, 03:01:25 PM »
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It does make me want to get a car that's powered on something other than gasoline. Prices are going to get crazy.


I would be there in a heartbeat if we had any conceivable way of affording a new car.
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2006, 03:56:56 PM »
And yet I'll bet your petrol prices won't even begin to equal those that are being charged in the UK :P
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2006, 07:40:38 PM »
True, the US is only looking at a $0.10 per gallon increase in gas. Most of the increase should be in the West.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/ExpectAJoltAtThePump.aspx
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2006, 08:13:41 PM »
The prices were horrible when I was overseas! I vacationed for a month this summer in Spain and France with my family. The exchange rate would have come out to about $6 per liter.
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2006, 09:38:19 AM »
time for random paranoid conspiracy!

BP has been under scrutiny recently for a short series of accidents, one resulting in human deaths.

Anyone ever thought that maybe they did this to look like they're safety conscious and look like they're the good guys as they raise gas prices again?

Not a sermon, just a thought.
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2006, 09:35:00 PM »
No, I don't think it is a conspiracy. It is difficult to say if the increase in gas prices will increase BP's profit enough to cover the cost of the repairs (which are still to be determined). My guess is that some attorneys got to them and told them that if they didn't do some repairs then worse then would happen to them (recall Exxon-Valdez in Prince William Sound, it took Exxon several years to recover from that oil spill).
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2006, 10:47:59 PM »
Curse the elements for rusting that pipe!!
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2006, 02:16:40 AM »
Ah, the benefits of being car-challenged.
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2006, 03:08:04 AM »
There's this house for rent in town that I am eyeing hungrily.  It is also close enough for me to bike to work should I so desire.  Very tempting.
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2006, 09:04:26 AM »
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No, I don't think it is a conspiracy. It is difficult to say if the increase in gas prices will increase BP's profit enough to cover the cost of the repairs (which are still to be determined). My guess is that some attorneys got to them and told them that if they didn't do some repairs then worse then would happen to them (recall Exxon-Valdez in Prince William Sound, it took Exxon several years to recover from that oil spill).

except this doesn't take into account that perhaps repairs aren't actually needed
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Re: Alaska Pipeline Closed
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2006, 11:31:44 AM »
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except this doesn't take into account that perhaps repairs aren't actually needed

It's the jews.  The jews told BP to do it.  :o
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