Thursday, March 17, 2016

Fiction or reality "Oil Storm"

In the movie oil storm, the most pivotal decision point was right after the assessment of damages. As the movie said, the potential loss of life after the battery should have been the focus. Essentially, they said it would take over a year to rebuild Port Fourchon, with the production and import losses being around 2,000,000 barrels of oil a day. The first fact is there was 350 day of oil available in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, so step one should have been to reduce oil consumption across the board. I would have made all work weeks four-day work weeks and encouraged all companies that were not infrastructural related to be closed one day a week (like Sunday) for a month. I would set up a gas rationing program like in WWII for everyone but emergency vehicles, farm equipment, and licensed public transportation. I would set up general information programs encouraging bike riding, motorcycle riding, carpooling, and mass transportation. I would have started moving products by rail and prioritizing trucking shipments to government contracts to ensure National Security. I would have dedicated an oil tanker to moving the available 20% oil production from Louisiana Port to the Texas Port while focusing repairing the loop in Louisiana. I would have increased domestic oil production, started bartering for oil from other countries, and looked first to Canada. I would constantly monitor the nation's state as the crises unfolded and rekindled the idea of the American Spirit, and reminded everyone that on one level or another, we were all in this together all well, bringing as many members of our military home to help rebuild the nation's infrastructure.            

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