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Gasoline Prices Surge After Colonial Pipeline Shutdown, East Coast Fuel Shortages Loom
Gasoline Prices Surge After Colonial Pipeline Shutdown, East Coast Fuel Shortages Loom Gasoline prices have exploded higher once again this morning – topping the Maginot Line of $2.00 for the first time since July 2015 – following reports that the main conduit for fuel from the Gulf to the East Coast has been shut due […]
CO2 is Changing the Jet Stream in Ways that will Create more Harveys
CO2 is Changing the Jet Stream in Ways that will Create more Harveys The flooding over Houston has become absolutely devastating, and now it is officially record-breaking. Parts of Southeast Texas have now seen 50 inches of rain since Friday — and the rain is still falling. “The record for total rainfall from a tropical […]
Houston Reeling Amid Outbreak Of Looting, Armed Robberies; Vigilantees Emerge
Houston Reeling Amid Outbreak Of Looting, Armed Robberies; Vigilantees Emerge Inevitably every major metropolitan crisis brings out the best and worst of what humanity has to offer. While hundreds/thousands of people have rushed into Houston following the epic destruction of Hurricane Harvey to help in any way possible, others have once again predictably chosen to […]
Houston Warns Bridges And Roads Are “Starting To Fail”
Houston Warns Bridges And Roads Are “Starting To Fail” As Tropical Storm Harvey heads back inland, slamming southwest Texas with another 15-25 inches of rain, Housting officials are reporting that the city’s critical infrastructure is starting to fail under the weight of the floodwaters, and may soon collapse. According to Reuters, roads and bridges in […]
Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it’s still raining
Reuters / Richard Carson Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it’s still raining The pictures are heartbreaking, the statistics are mind-boggling. And, incredibly, it’s still getting worse. Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas late Friday night, more than 40 inches of rain have fallen in parts of the Houston metro […]
When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings It remains to be seen what the impact will be from Mother Nature putting the nation’s fourth largest city out-of-business. And for how long? It’s possible that Houston will never entirely recover from Hurricane Harvey. The event may exceed the physical damage that Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans. […]
Alabama, Tennessee, & Georgia Declare States Of Emergency As Gas Shortages Loom After Pipeline Leak
Alabama, Tennessee, & Georgia Declare States Of Emergency As Gas Shortages Loom After Pipeline Leak As Native Americans protesters face arrest in North Dakota for blocking the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, TheAntiMedia’s Carey Wedler reports a gasoline pipeline spill is currently unfolding in the South. The leak has prompted Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and Georgia Gov. […]
The Dismal Thing Schlumberger CEO Just Said about US Oil
The Dismal Thing Schlumberger CEO Just Said about US Oil 2016 to be brutal. Then, dreams of “potential spike in oil prices” An engineer in the oil industry, who’d sold his house in Houston and bailed out after finding work in another state, just told me this: A young civil engineer that I am working […]
Oil Plunge Hits Office Market, But “So Far” No Apocalypse
Oil Plunge Hits Office Market, But “So Far” No Apocalypse “Here in Houston a number of projects have been canceled. Engineers are put on ‘hold.’ There have been some contract engineers laid off, and hiring has been suspended. Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop.” That’s how an engineer in the energy sector […]
