The power grids stayed up, but it seems y2k is hitting oil

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This is not exactly about electric, but the electric power around the world stayed up, generally, no worse than usual.

However, something that is not getting publicized at all, and is of great importance to the people on this site is that oil industry is having all kinds of trouble in the past few days.

A refinery blew up in Lousiana, a plant is being shut down in texas, the huge cracking plant in Venezuela crashed unexpectedly, there are rumors of big trouble in saudi at refineries and at least one port totally shutting down, the Australians are putting out contaminated aviation fuel which has apparently been like putting sugar into the gas of all the light planes in Australia. Wow - and it is getting no news media play at all.

The price of March Crude oil has gone from approximately $24 to $30 per barrel in the past week. Wow!!

-- Anonymous, January 20, 2000

Answers

News media, coverage? That would not play with the Administration line, and, remember -"we OK, you're OK", and "I did not have sex with that woman".

-- Anonymous, January 20, 2000

Thanks, xBob, for posting this. I don't have time to post the urls, but refineries are going down. One pipeline has shut down. The refinery in Venezuela is the largest in the western hemisphere. This gasoline is shipped to the east coast. The shut down will last from 3 weeks to a month, they think.

These failures are said to be due to "systems failures," and "mechanical" problems. Not one has said y2k. There are too many to be expected normal failures. Maybe keep gas in your car? Maybe hang on to your food storage? Maybe keep the stored water? Maybe keep the lamp oil and lamps?

In a recent post, Malcolm said he still disagreed with me on Fuel = Electricity, Electricity = Fuel. Let's hope most refineries stay up so we won't have to test those equations.

-- Anonymous, January 20, 2000


Here's an updated list of all the Petroleum Industry Problems complete with linking URL's

www.nckodokan.com/charts/crude.html

It's quite a list!

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2000


Meg could you make a list available to me I cannot get to www.nckodokan.com/charts...

Thanks

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2000


Try again. I got it this morning. Very interesting. Go beyond the chart to look at reports of explosions. Really amazing.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000


Yes, I was able to get it today, thanks. If 90 - 97 had been combed through for reports as completely as the last 3 years have been I am sure the numbers would increase by many facters, but it would still not change where the numbers seem to be heading. We may still have a serious problem ahead of us. Richard

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

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