Yahoo! News/AP: Airlines face growing fuel shortage risk
"By Brad Foss, AP Business Writer
Washington- Lost luggage, bad weather and now...no fuel?
While fliers haven't yet had to add that problem to the list of headaches associated with air travel, it may not be far away. Airports in Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada recently came within a few days-and at times within hours-of running out of jet fuel.
Because of supply bottlenecks, airlines were forced to fly in extra fluel from other markets and scramble for deliveries by truck. But these are expensive, short term fixes that do not address what airline executives consider to be the underlying problem: with passenger traffic rising above pre-9/11 levels, the nation's aviation business is slowly outgrowing the infrastructure that fuels it.
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But the near shortages underscore the added strain on refineries, pipelines and the airlines' own fuel procurement efforts as the industry recovers from its worst-ever downturn-June passenger traffic was up 4 percent from 2001 levels, according to industry data-and energy demand rises throughout the economy.
'It's really starting to surface as an issue', said James Holland, vice president of logistics at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. a Houston based pipeline operator.
Part of the problem is that refining and pipeline capacity in some regions of the US have grown slower than demand, meaning companies must run their equipment harder to satisfy growing fuel needs. This raises the chances of operational snags and leaves less of a cushion when something does go wrong. Recent refinery outages have helped push oil prices to record heights near $64 a barrel."
It hit over $64 a barrel recently. It would seem that these problems are the just a tip of the iceberg we are heading for just as the Titanic did back in its day.
You can see cries for more national production of oil rather than dependence on oil from the Middle East. That would only exacerbate pollution which could only make things worse from an economic and health standpoint. Is anyone noticing the increase in asthma rates which is affecting the young in America? Doesn't this point to a national security issue? In addition, China's warning that pollution affects economic development should also make us pay attention to the problem of dependence on fossil fuels.
It seems that developing a clean and renewable source of energy should be a primary national security concern since energy is the fuel of our economy...
It does not take a rocket scientist to notice this trend, but as in the past, people just don't seem to move on an issue until it becomes a crisis...
Washington- Lost luggage, bad weather and now...no fuel?
While fliers haven't yet had to add that problem to the list of headaches associated with air travel, it may not be far away. Airports in Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada recently came within a few days-and at times within hours-of running out of jet fuel.
Because of supply bottlenecks, airlines were forced to fly in extra fluel from other markets and scramble for deliveries by truck. But these are expensive, short term fixes that do not address what airline executives consider to be the underlying problem: with passenger traffic rising above pre-9/11 levels, the nation's aviation business is slowly outgrowing the infrastructure that fuels it.
...
But the near shortages underscore the added strain on refineries, pipelines and the airlines' own fuel procurement efforts as the industry recovers from its worst-ever downturn-June passenger traffic was up 4 percent from 2001 levels, according to industry data-and energy demand rises throughout the economy.
'It's really starting to surface as an issue', said James Holland, vice president of logistics at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. a Houston based pipeline operator.
Part of the problem is that refining and pipeline capacity in some regions of the US have grown slower than demand, meaning companies must run their equipment harder to satisfy growing fuel needs. This raises the chances of operational snags and leaves less of a cushion when something does go wrong. Recent refinery outages have helped push oil prices to record heights near $64 a barrel."
It hit over $64 a barrel recently. It would seem that these problems are the just a tip of the iceberg we are heading for just as the Titanic did back in its day.
You can see cries for more national production of oil rather than dependence on oil from the Middle East. That would only exacerbate pollution which could only make things worse from an economic and health standpoint. Is anyone noticing the increase in asthma rates which is affecting the young in America? Doesn't this point to a national security issue? In addition, China's warning that pollution affects economic development should also make us pay attention to the problem of dependence on fossil fuels.
It seems that developing a clean and renewable source of energy should be a primary national security concern since energy is the fuel of our economy...
It does not take a rocket scientist to notice this trend, but as in the past, people just don't seem to move on an issue until it becomes a crisis...
posted by matua105 at 1:51 PM
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