natural gas cannot be imported much...it has to be liquified, and is an expensive way to go. Hurricanes like this hit right in the heart of the gas production centers.


This is a BIG one folks...3rd most intense on record right now. Wind at 165 MPH, gusts to 175....Pressure below 900 millibars (896, I believe) Gilbert, at 888 was the strongest on record. Nothing to slow it much before it hits near Galveston, and maybe right up the Galveston harbor into Houston, population 5½ million...(New Orleans was 1½ million). Houston IS the energy center of the US...more oil, gas, pipelines, etc than even New Orleans....and Rita is going right through most of the gulf oil rigs that weren't hit by Katrina.

    No one knows exactly what is gonna happen, but you won't like it....