Wrong! There are no major international ports there, but there are many ports used by the petroleum industry. These are not just the big oil companies, but the smaller contractors who services the rigs and pipelines. If you write off any of south Lousiana, you can say hello to $5.00 a gallon gasoline. Part of the way the "big oil" keeps the price down is to place the service and support companies as close to the source as possible.
Fixing these levees will not put money in the big oil companies, it will keep the small businesses that rely on the proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and the oil fields there to stay in business. If they move, they have to close down. They won't be profitable then. > >My understanding is that there are no major ports in Placquemines. >There is oil refining, but that should not be majorly affected by >flooding (if built correctly). And giving the oil companies more money >to pad their pockets also rubs me the wrong way. > I thought all of the Katrina related damage there was from the storm surge, not the Mississippi. To truly solve the problem with hurricanes in south Louisiana, the wetlands need to be rebuilt. The only true way to do that is to destroy the levees on the Mississippi from Cairo. Illinois south. There is not enough sediment in the river to rebuild the wetlends properly otherwise. Doing that, however, will kill all of the riverine commerce now on the river. >Remember that we are not talking about flooding from the sea, but from >seasonal flooding of the Mississippi. > >Is the federal government paying for the rebuilding of "ground zero"? >I didn't think so. I thought that was a privately funded project. > Probably not an order of magnitude difference but a difference. But, how much domestic petroleum is piped through or supported by lower NYC? How much fresh, domestic seafood is brought on shore in lower NYC? We are discussing apples and oranges here. Different area and diffeent industries. >As for the tax base, how about this. I will take the federal taxes >from lower NYC for the month, and you take the federal taxes from >Placquemines Parish for the month, and we'll see what the difference >is. > Let me ask this, how would you feel if you were told you had to move because the government refused to fix a problem it created? What if you found out you lived on a superfund site that the feds caused and they refused to clean it up? This is a similar analogy. The feds caused the problem by building the levees in the first place. Now they have the responsibility to keep them up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:203498 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
