No kidding! Fill up today and maybe thing will smooth out as quickly as they did with Katrina. But even so, there is the potential out there for real damage to our economy if Rita tears up a bunch of platforms, rigs and refineries.
Crude neared the $70.00 per gallon mark and went up about $.90 a gallon within two days after Katrina struck the gulf cost. By last Friday, refining capacity was back on track and crude prices had dropped to pre-Katrina prices, yet the price at the pump in my area had hardly moved. More of a smoothing up than a smoothing out.