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Petrol & Katrina Impact Wide Array of Product Costs

Complacency is not recommended for the U.S.the average consumer is that the majority of
consumer this winter according to forecastersplastic resins manufactured by U.S. factories
who say that a wide range of products fromare located along the Gulf Coast. Initially,
food to auto parts will see rises in retailthe factories were shut down during the
prices. While food prices have risen over thestorms. Secondly, the factories require
past decade, the impending costs will benatural gas to generate the power needed to
different, as they are expected to be therun the plastics factories. And thirdly, due
largest at one time over the past severalto the short supplies of the raw materials or
years and not only due to the cost ofresins used in the manufacture of plastic,
delivering goods but because of the overnightthe three most common types have increased in
escalation of the cost of producingprice between 20 and 30 per cent to date
plastic.And not dissimilar to the blame gamesince August 2005, with another projected 8
which was played from Louisiana toper cent increase by the end of November
Washington, D.C. in the aftermath of2005, according to Plastics News, a trade
Hurricane Katrina, we now see the corporatepublication.Dow Chemical Co., for example,
sector using Katrina to advantage as well.which runs a plastics factory outside of New
First, we had the oil companies blaming theOrleans, LA in Hahnville, LA, was forced to
price of gas at the pump on the price of acancel 1,000 contracts after Hurricane
barrel of oil, then blaming Katrina for theKatrina, including those with Rubbermaid,
shutdown of refinery operations and then onInc. and the Clorox Company. That then
the lack of refineries in order process thetranslates into myriad products consumed by
imported oil the U.S. was receiving fromthe average American on a daily basis in
Europe, as a result of the shutdowns fromwhich plastic is either a component of its
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The U.S.manufacture or plastic containers or
Congress is still in the initial stages ofwrappings which contain another product such
investigating how much of that isas food items or dry goods. For instance, the
palpable.But following the disaster in theprice of a gallon of milk has risen
Gulf of Mexico, U.S. consumers will alsoapproximately 15 cents since Hurricane
experience sticker shock beyond the pumps andKatrina because of the plastic bottles in
their monthly heating bills. Unbeknownst towhich it is distributed.



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