Gas shortage in Charlotte.
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Last time I checked, this is the year 2008. It is quite amazing to me to think that in the year 2008, the City of Charlotte has had a shortage of gasoline for going on three weeks after Hurricane Ike has hit the Gulf Coast forcing the shutdown of significant percentage of refineries. In the year that oil companies like Exxon Mobile are announcing record profits in consecutive quarters, you are telling me that it is taking these giant companies almost three weeks to be operating at 100% efficiency as prior to the hurricane? That is quite unbelievable.
Allow me to continue my sarcastic tone; operating refineries in the hurricane prone Gulf Coast isn’t like finding the cure for cancer or finding the Holy Grail, is it? A refinery that is shutdown due to a Hurricane isn’t a mysterious puzzle, it should be an expected technical problem that any decent company should be able to resolve with the only question being how many man hours it would take to get it done. In stark contrast, it would be a completely different thing if the monster from Cloverfield popped up out of the Gulf of Mexico and destroyed all the refineries there. That would be considered, say it with me those that are responsible for managing these refineries, un-ex-pect-ed because no one in there right mind would have ever imagined that scenario.
So my rant on refinery operators is done. Of course, I’m not trying to shift the blame away from consumer panic caused by what seems to be a rumor but coming up on the third week of the gas shortage in Charlotte, I can’t help but think that there is some flaw in how the gasoline is distributed in the Southeast.
Less than two years away from 2010, where are the flying cars? Better yet, where is Mr. Fusion?
