First Katrina and now Gustav

My prayers goes to people of New Orleans as they faces yet another great storm in which the outcome might be yet another massive flooding.

The tropical storm Gustav, which now had become Hurricane Gustav is said to be “the mother of all stroms” and it’s heading straight to them.

Reports are coming in of New Orleans evacuation. I can imagine that 2005′s Katrina memories are still fresh in the minds of the people of New Orleans as they evacuate their homes.

This also gives the U.S. government and New Orleans mayor a second chance to do something right. A second chance is the rarest commodities in a political arena and it looks like they are capitalizing it.

What effect does this bring to you and me?

Apart form thousands of families, homes, and life at stake here, New Orleans and the gulf of Mexico is where the oil is at.

Due to the storm that is about to hit, U.S. energy companies shut nearly all offshore Gulf oil and gas production activity. Refineries in flood prone area in Louisiana were also shutdown.

Aspect the world oil prices to increase due to Gustav.

There are more Americans killed by neutral disaster then terrorist attacks. Maybe they should rethink this ‘war on terrorism’ thing to, lets say, ‘war on global warming’ instead?

Just a thought.

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