# Alaskan Pipeline Down: Not so good
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 7, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620 "2006-08-07T12:27:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/1 "2006-08-07T12:27:20Z")
Great timing.
> A 400,000-barrel daily disruption accounts for about 15% of the 2.8 million barrels a day that West Coast oil companies are currently running through their refineries.
[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B4C51C53B-766C-4E82-BBC0-79764A91348F%7D&siteid](http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B4C51C53B-766C-4E82-BBC0-79764A91348F%7D&siteid)=
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### Author:  [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/2 "2006-08-07T12:28:26Z")
WOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/3 "2006-08-07T12:31:41Z")
$4 a gallon here we come!! Guess who pays, the consumer does. Pass those tragedy costs right on to us… :roll2:
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/4 "2006-08-07T12:48:37Z")
linky no worky for me…so whats going on? need details
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/5 "2006-08-07T12:50:08Z")
Ugggghhhhh Better fill up today.
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### Author:  [@STEALTTH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/STEALTTH)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/6 "2006-08-07T12:50:49Z")
AWESOME!!! :bloated:
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/7 "2006-08-07T12:53:28Z")
> [@JEG](#):
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> linky no worky for me…so whats going on? need details
British Petroleum had to shut down their pipeline for a couple of days to fix a leak. 400,000 barrels a day x’s a couple of days = a million barrels that the west coast won’t get. However, fuel reserves are at an all-time midsummer high of like 5 million barrels, so there won’t be any shortage of oil. Just uncertainty in the stock market. The US total oil reserve is at 333 million barrels. So, meh. :gotme:
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/8 "2006-08-07T12:53:36Z")
Well dduuhhh the execs need to maintain their 30mil a year paycheck
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/9 "2006-08-07T12:58:15Z")
> [@OfficerK](#):
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> Well dduuhhh the execs need to maintain their 30mil a year paycheck
:word: they dont want to wait an extra month for that new personal jet.
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### Author:  [@Deuce](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Deuce)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/10 "2006-08-07T12:58:36Z")
:tdown:
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### Author:  [@taurusho](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/taurusho)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/11 "2006-08-07T13:01:55Z")
Its always amusing how even though the reserves are capping off, they still find ways to make a pretty penny. Oh well, the price we pay to enjoy the things we find pleasureable.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/12 "2006-08-07T13:02:57Z")
> [@BikerFry](#):
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> so there won’t be any shortage of oil. Just uncertainty in the stock market.
exactly.
I’ll lose alot more money due to “market uncertainty” then I ever will to rising gasoline costs at the pump.
And… current consumer prices are not completely irrespective of market futures. Market futures are already UP on this event.
:meh:?
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/13 "2006-08-07T13:03:11Z")
> [@taurusho](#):
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> Its always amusing how even though the reserves are capping off, they still find ways to make a pretty penny. Oh well, the price we pay to enjoy the things we find pleasureable.
I know right. Its rediculous.
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### Author:  [@JettaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JettaX)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/14 "2006-08-07T13:03:25Z")
> [@BikerFry](#):
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> British Petroleum had to shut down their pipeline for a couple of days to fix a leak.
Try more like a few weeks to a few months.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/15 "2006-08-07T13:04:00Z")
> [@JettaX](#):
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> Try more like a few weeks to a few months.
Yep. 18 miles of pipe is not an easy job.
IB4PipeLayingJokes
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### Author:  [@Slomies](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slomies)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/16 "2006-08-07T13:04:21Z")
wish I could convert to the fuel source that’s like 85% corn product and 15% gas as a fuel supply for my auto …
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/17 "2006-08-07T13:04:33Z")
how bad is the leak? I take it they cant just put a bucket underit like a leaky roof lol.
/sarcasm.
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### Author:  [@JettaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JettaX)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/18 "2006-08-07T13:06:05Z")
> [@Nikuk](#):
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> Yep. 18 miles of pipe is not an easy job.
>
> IB4PipeLayingJokes
Not to mention it is in Prudhoe Bay which is one of the most isolated spots on the planet.
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/19 "2006-08-07T13:06:56Z")
FYI, price of oil goes up also because the huge fields of oil currently in place aren’t pumping the same amount of oil out as they used to be…
despite there being a “surplus”, the surplus is still slowly dwindling.
It also costs money to dig / find oil reserves in other places.
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alaskan-pipeline-down-not-so-good/15620/20 "2006-08-07T13:09:51Z")
> [@Daddie](#):
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> FYI, price of oil goes up also because the huge fields of oil currently in place aren’t pumping the same amount of oil out as they used to be…
>
> despite there being a “surplus”, the surplus is still slowly dwindling.
>
> It also costs money to dig / find oil reserves in other places.
A problem also exists because we do not have enough refineries to process the crude oil that we have on hand.
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