"We are told that gas prices are going up because oil production facilities have been wrecked by IKE.

However, NPR let the truth slip the other day. They said that TEN oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico were damaged. TEN out of over 3000. (So maybe they were the ones that weren't being taken care of because they weren't producing?) Anyway, seems to me like about 1/3 of 1% of the rigs were damaged." - MaineDog

Did the same NPR tell you what the production shutdowns in anticipation of damage were MaineDog? Any idea what shutting down an oil production pipeline involves and the work required to put it back in operation? Did NPR explain anything about loss of refining capacity while people had been evacuated? Any idea of the work involved in getting a refinery back on line?