Reading all the posts about oil prices, I just realized: Hurricane season is coming up soon

[NickB79]

Has anyone contemplated the sh!tstorm that will hit if a hurricane tears through the Gulf again and further damages oil production?

Keep your powder dry and your gun well-oiled....

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, enough damage to the platforms in the Gulf

and maybe Stupid won't have to bomb Iran.

Nah, that scumbucket wants to stick a Democrat with as many unwinnable wars as he can.

[rzemanfl]

2. They will start raising the prices as soon as one forms off the

coast of Africa, we've seen that before.

[Auggie]

3. Hurricane forecast: Above average season

floridatoday.com:

Despite two consecutive years of missing the mark, a research team at Colorado State University again foresees an above average hurricane season for 2008.

William Gray’s team expects 13 named storms, seven of them hurricanes — and three of those Category 3 or greater. Category 3 on the Saffir/Simpson scale is a storm with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater.

In the just-concluded 2007 season, there were 14 named storms, six of them hurricanes and two of Category 3 or greater.

The Atlantic basin hurricane season runs June 1 and Nov. 30.

“Despite fairly inactive 2006 and 2007 hurricane seasons, we believe that the Atlantic basin is still in an active hurricane cycle,” Gray said in a prepared statement. “This active cycle is expected to continue at least for another decade or two.”

more: http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071207/BREAKINGNEWS/71207010

[angrycarpenter]

4. I've been through several

I've always stayed and rode it out just to see what happened. Not anymore. I'm going to run away like a chicken if one heads my way this year.

[Cresent City Kid]

5. It only takes one

Katrina gave us a spike in gas prices that shocked Americans. Now we long for the days when they were that LOW.

[rurallib]

6. So is financial reporting season for the BIG OIL companies

I am guessing that they will have obscene profits and will endure a mild storm of politicians drivel.