Hurricane Damage to Oil Refineries at the Turn of the Century

A series of annual hurricanes, beginning with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, heavily damaged U.S.A. energy refineries, which were heavily concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, prices of gasoline for cars, natural gas for home heating, and of virtually all goods, including food, rose to unsustainable levels, causing severe hardship among homeowners, commuting workers, and working-class consumers. Tragically and, to many inexplicably, the oil companies did not build new refineries in safer areas of the country.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on any and hurricane damage to Gulf area oil refineries with particular emphasis on the failure of oil companies to build new ones in safer areas.