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| Oil Refinery explosion kills 14 in Texas |
| 2005-03-24 |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #10 Not a Terr action. But if that can happen from an accident, imagine what happens when someone goes after it on purpose... And gasoline futures are up 2% becasue of this. Imagine the impact of taking a refinery completely off line (This one remains functional except for the part where the explosion was). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-24 10:38:11 AM |
| #9 TEXAS CITY, Texas — All but one of the 1,800 or so oil refinery workers have been accounted for after overnight search efforts following the thunderous blast that killed 14 and injured more than 100 others, officials said Thursday. The fiery blast Wednesday at BP's 1,200-acre plant near Houston shot flames high into the sky, forced schoolchildren to cower under their desks and showered plant grounds with ash and chunks of charred metal. Windows rattled more than five miles away. About 433,000 barrels of crude oil are processed a day at the plant, producing 3 percent of the U.S. supply. "Welcome to life in Texas City," Marion Taylor, 55, said Wednesday. "I was born here and pretty much, it happens from time to time." |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-24 10:36:22 AM |
| #8 Not a Terr action. But if that can happen from an accident, imagine what happens when someone goes after it on purpose... And gasoline futures are up 2% becasue of this. Imagine the impact of taking a refinery completely off line (This one remains functional except for the part where the explosion was). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-24 10:38:11 AM |
| #7 TEXAS CITY, Texas — All but one of the 1,800 or so oil refinery workers have been accounted for after overnight search efforts following the thunderous blast that killed 14 and injured more than 100 others, officials said Thursday. The fiery blast Wednesday at BP's 1,200-acre plant near Houston shot flames high into the sky, forced schoolchildren to cower under their desks and showered plant grounds with ash and chunks of charred metal. Windows rattled more than five miles away. About 433,000 barrels of crude oil are processed a day at the plant, producing 3 percent of the U.S. supply. "Welcome to life in Texas City," Marion Taylor, 55, said Wednesday. "I was born here and pretty much, it happens from time to time." |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-24 10:36:22 AM |
| #6 And gasoline futures are up 2% becasue of this. Color me unsurprised. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-24 10:17:14 PM |
| #5 Oil Refineries - why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Brett 2005-03-24 7:18:38 PM |
| #4 But all that roiling black smoke! It's going to lead to global warming!! ... or global cooling!!!... So Fix It Now, for the sake of our children!!!! ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-03-24 3:23:25 PM |
| #3 This is a human tragedy, the oil implications come in a distant second. |
| Posted by: Dennis Kucinich 2005-03-24 11:01:39 AM |
| #2 Not a Terr action. But if that can happen from an accident, imagine what happens when someone goes after it on purpose... And gasoline futures are up 2% becasue of this. Imagine the impact of taking a refinery completely off line (This one remains functional except for the part where the explosion was). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-24 10:38:11 AM |
| #1 TEXAS CITY, Texas — All but one of the 1,800 or so oil refinery workers have been accounted for after overnight search efforts following the thunderous blast that killed 14 and injured more than 100 others, officials said Thursday. The fiery blast Wednesday at BP's 1,200-acre plant near Houston shot flames high into the sky, forced schoolchildren to cower under their desks and showered plant grounds with ash and chunks of charred metal. Windows rattled more than five miles away. About 433,000 barrels of crude oil are processed a day at the plant, producing 3 percent of the U.S. supply. "Welcome to life in Texas City," Marion Taylor, 55, said Wednesday. "I was born here and pretty much, it happens from time to time." |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-24 10:36:22 AM |