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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