It now looks certain that Hurricane Katrina will push fuel prices – and air fares – up via the roof.

Hurricane Katrina has just killed hundreds of individuals, and it could nicely be 1000′s of individuals that we don’t know about already. But now the awful illnesses we’ve all heard of in Third Globe countries – Cholera and Typhoid – appear all set to hit flood affected areas in Alabama, Louisiana and the Mississippi.

Fuel costs are going to skyrocket…

The probabilities of the US getting their fuel production back again to normal quickly now have disappeared. The US has two large disasters to attempt and cope with. The Hurricane/Flood and it is linked harm and public health dangers. And now a major interruption to the nation’s fuel materials.

It might have taken a month to get fuel materials in the US back again to normal if Hurricane Katrina had been a mere operate-of-the mill disaster. But it was not. Hurricane Katrina looks like she’s the greatest all-natural calamity the US has ever faced. There are hundreds of 1000′s of individuals displaced, and that is thoughts-boggling.

Even with the vast prosperity the United States has at its disposal, the world’s greatest military machine and some of the world’s top civil defense and rescue experts, the US has a truly difficult street ahead to assist the individuals of the affected southern states, and especially New Orleans and Biloxi.

The US still requirements its fuel, so globe fuel prices, and everyone else’s air fares are likely to hit heights we’ve never observed before… and heaven only knows how long fuel prices will remain high.

There are just too numerous factors in the big puzzle.

The instant victims of Hurricane Katrina are the hundreds, perhaps 1000′s, who have died already. But the displaced survivors now face an even bigger danger… from h2o-borne disease.

Here we have individuals from the world’s richest nation who have suddenly discovered themselves faced by a typical Third Globe danger.

The survivors are in an environment with contaminated h2o. You cannot drink the h2o any longer simply because it is contaminated by sewage, bodies and poisonous chemical substances. And with every thing flooded, how will anyone boil h2o to make it secure to drink?

How will the Hurricane Katrina survivors preserve individual cleanliness (vital to maintain off illnesses) and how will they get secure food?

Electricity is down in 1000′s of homes, so numerous have no cooking, lights, fuel or even communications… That is a disaster I don’t think the US has faced before.

Shelter and consuming h2o are the initial priorities now for the survivors. (Most individuals don’t understand a healthy human becoming can final up to one entire month without any food at all.) It is not enjoyable and I don’t recommend it to anyone. But it is possible.

But you can only final two days without consuming h2o, and perhaps much less without shelter from the elements.

Katrina has been a disaster for the USA, and now it could nicely be an end to inexpensive fuel prices that we’ve taken for granted. You can expect air fares to begin going up nearly immediately as nicely.

If you are pondering of air travel now, I don’t know if there are any inexpensive air fares left. Parhaps it is the time to grab yours now.

David Harvey is a retired journalist who lives in Sydney Australia. He is the publisher of several websites including http://www.dirt-cheap-airline-tickets.info – a great source for the cheapest air fares on the internet.

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