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Irma Is Being Described As A ‘Nuclear Hurricane’ That Has Left One Island ‘Practically Uninhabitable’
Irma Is Being Described As A ‘Nuclear Hurricane’ That Has Left One Island ‘Practically Uninhabitable’ Irma is not just another hurricane – it is a history making storm that is going to cause up to a quarter of a trillion dollars in damage once it makes landfall in the United States. In fact, Miami Beach […]
WTI Jumps After Harvey Prompts US Crude Production Collapse, Biggest Inventory Build In 6 Months
WTI Jumps After Harvey Prompts US Crude Production Collapse, Biggest Inventory Build In 6 Months Last night’s first glimpse of Harvey’s impact on energy confirmed a sizable crude build but only modest gasoline draw. WTI/RBOB prices slid into the DOE print and extended losses after a bigger than expected crude build (+4.58mm vs +4mm exp). […]
Two Nuclear Power Plants In Florida Are Directly In The Path Of Hurricane Irma
Two Nuclear Power Plants In Florida Are Directly In The Path Of Hurricane Irma Hurricane Irma is more powerful than all of the other major Atlantic storms this year combined, and it has an eye as large as the entire Detroit metro area. It is being reported that “upwards of 90%” of Barbuda has already […]
How Vulnerable Are Oil Markets To Extreme Weather?
How Vulnerable Are Oil Markets To Extreme Weather? Last week, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the United States and for days disrupted the national energy industry. Refineries were closed, pipelines shut down, tankers held out to sea. The price of fuel shot up as gas stations went dry across the country, while crude slumped with […]
FEMA Expected To Run Out Of Money By Friday As Superstorm Irma Approaches Florida
FEMA Expected To Run Out Of Money By Friday As Superstorm Irma Approaches Florida By Carey Wedler The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has suffered from a shoddy reputation for quite some time, particularly after its failed response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As the Gulf coast recovers from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma approaches Florida, FEMA faces further […]
First Glimpse Of Harvey Impact Shows Biggest Crude Build In 5 Months, Smaller Gasoline Draw Than Expected
First Glimpse Of Harvey Impact Shows Biggest Crude Build In 5 Months, Smaller Gasoline Draw Than Expected Amid all the chaos of Harvey’s outages and Irma’s expectations, tonight’s API inventory seems relatively irrelevant but we are sure the machines will be all over it – no matter that it will be guesstimated more than normal. […]
Hurricane Harvey’s Impact on Texan Farmers
Hurricane Harvey’s Impact on Texan Farmers Hurricane Harvey, the most powerful hurricane to hit the United States in more than a decade, is expected to have a significant impact on Texan farmers, ranchers, and Texas’s agricultural export industry. With more than 50 inches of total rainfall already recorded, water damage to grain and vegetable crops, […]
Hurricane Harvey, Climate Denial, Fake News and ExxonMobil
Hurricane Harvey, Climate Denial, Fake News and ExxonMobil For well over twenty years, climate deniers have tried to stymie discussion of extreme weather events and climate change. Why? Because extreme weather kills people, destroys property, trashes things and costs billions of dollars. And that’s when people start searching for accountability blame. Hurricane Harvey’s damage is […]
Hurricane Irma Projected To Reach Category 5 And Hit The East Coast – Panic Prepping Begins In Florida
Hurricane Irma Projected To Reach Category 5 And Hit The East Coast – Panic Prepping Begins In Florida On Monday, Hurricane Irma strengthened into a category 4 hurricane, and some meteorologists are projecting that it will eventually become a category 5 storm before it eventually makes landfall in the United States. And since a “category […]
Perturbations Anon
Perturbations Anon Happy Labor Day everybody. Forward from here, things get jiggy. The nation faces a pile-up of events as we turn the corner on summer and head into the spook-house of autumn. This will be the week when the reeking after-effects of Harvey’s journey through Houston become super-vivid. It’s going to be hot-hot-hot there […]
Gasoline Prices Tumble As Refiners Resume Operations
Gasoline Prices Tumble As Refiners Resume Operations RBOB Gasoline futures tumbled to their lowest level in almost a week overnnight as several US Gulf Coast refineries reported their plans to restart operationsafter the devastation of Hurricane Harvey forced them to shutdown. While about one-fifth of U.S. refining capacity is halted, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, some […]
In media res: Houston, Harvey and the catastrophe of climate change
In media res: Houston, Harvey and the catastrophe of climate change “In media res” is Latin for “in the middle of things.” Frequently, it refers to the literary device of plunging readers into some central action of a story (often an epic) and then filling in the details and background later. The residents of Houston […]
Category 6? If Hurricane Irma Becomes The Strongest Hurricane In History, It Could Wipe Entire Cities Off The Map
Category 6? If Hurricane Irma Becomes The Strongest Hurricane In History, It Could Wipe Entire Cities Off The Map Meteorologists have been shocked at how rapidly Hurricane Irma has been strengthening, and they are already warning that if it hits the United States as a high level category 5 storm the devastation would be absolutely […]
Harvey: Fierce Climate Change at Work
Harvey: Fierce Climate Change at Work Photo by The National Guard | CC BY 2.0 Is Harvey a force of nature or something more? Clearly, Harvey is a natural disaster of monstrous proportions. Its destructiveness is the hottest topic on TV coast-to-coast and around the world. Still, cynics of climate change say natural disasters, like […]
Arkema Texas Plant Explodes Causing “Massive” Fire, “Black Smoke Fills The Air”
Arkema Texas Plant Explodes Causing “Massive” Fire, “Black Smoke Fills The Air” You can’t say they didn’t warn us: this afternoon, the VP of US manufacturing Daryl Roberts at French chemicals giant Arkema, said the company was on “high alert” as more fires could start at the doomed facility at any moment. Well, that moment […]
