to be a bearish front for crude oil and going into as you said the labor day weekend this will be certainly a higher price environment for motorists. so this is an interesting point. people may see the price of oil getting lower because we re taking less of it out, but that doesn t mean your gas prices. typically we associate lower oil prices with lower gas prices but in this case it could result in higher refined gasoline prices. you didn t talk about the ordinarily shut down. the oil industry is very good at this. they get their work ersz off the rigs. they do it ahead of time. they seal up their rigs. bottom line though is there is some permanent damage that can be done with a category 3 hurricane to either pipelines, refineries, shipping channels. this could have longer term effects, longer than a few days on gasoline price and potentially access to gasoline. right. absolutely. and so what we go back to in a case like this is we go back to history the the last time that a signi
in a situation like this, every minute counts. it people can t stay under that rubble for too much longer. and in addition, the rescue workers face the most daunting conditions because aftershock after aftershock continues to rock through this island. making the already unstable debris incredibly perilous for the work ersz. in fact, yesterday the police commissioner said that it was time to say no more at one particular site. the ctv building, and that was very distressing for some japanese citizens because there are some japanese citizens who are buried there in the rubble and they were hoping they could be released. the commissioner saying he is 100% certain no one at that site could still be alive. attention is turning to some other sites where they re hoping to find people in the rubble, meantime this island still deals with water problems, gas breaks, and all sorts of other issues as the aftershocks continue. sara, thank you.