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PROBLEM: These are the tough realities Floridians who evacuated in the face of Hurricane Irma last week even as they begin to return home. An unprecedented six million fled from the Category 5 storm  the largest evacuation in United States history.
I took her question and others to fuel experts. A car-dependent state with a history of hurricanes  Florida had a week before Irma hit to lay in enough fuel for residents to drive out of harm's wayâthe choice mode of evacuation. But that wasn't enough time  and the reasons why add yet another dimension to the Sunshine State's deepening vulnerability to climate change.
Low-lying  peninsular Florida is in a famously precarious place. One lesser-known vulnerability that the Hurricane Irma exposed is how difficult it can be to move fuel supplies here quickly. Unlike states with more shared borders and freight infrastructure  roughly 97 percent of the refined fuel sold in Florida gets shipped in  from the Gulf of Mexico. Much of it usually come from refineries on the shores of Texasâwhich were devastated just weeks ago by the second-costliest storm in U.S. history  Hurricane Harvey.
With Texas refineries knocked out of commission because of Harvey  Florida's fuel suppliers were already feeling the squeeze before Irma's path became clear. In fact  as of the week before Labor Day  according to Jim Storey  the business development director of the Georgia-based fuel distributor Mansfield Oil  Florida was trucking some of its own supplies over there to help out Texas. But as Irma predictions shaped up  the flow of fuel out-of-state was swiftly reversed.
The weekend before Labor Day  as the degree of Irma's threat became clearer  Florida gas suppliers and emergency managers joined to strategize. They knew there would be a run on gas  though it wasn't clear yet which parts of the state would be evacuating. So fuel shipments that could be steered to Florida were diverted from all over. Barges that normally deliver from offline Gulf Coast refineries were rerouted to New York and Philadelphia to bring gas south. Tankers from Louisiana and Mississippi steamed eastward to reach Florida in time  having been delayed by Harvey's fearsome path. One oil trader redirected two European barges destined for Africa to Florida instead. According to Hillary Stevenson  director of oil market research for the analysis firm Genscape  the state took in some 570 00 barrels from Europe ahead of  Irma  in order to make up for supplies it had lost to Harvey.
"We were accepting supplies from anywhere that would send it " says James Miller  the director of communications for the Florida Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association  a trade group designated to coordinate fuel supplies with the state in the event of an emergency. "The timing of Harvey and Irma was not ideal."
Fortunately  Irma wasn't a repeat of Hurricane Rita  when dozens died trying to evacuate on Houston's traffic-clogged  gas-less roads in 2005. Florida's transportation officials coordinated this evacuation remarkably well. The state was spared catastrophic damage when Irma's path veered from the biggest population center.
While many gas chains  companies  and government agencies buy fuel at contract-bound prices  others buy it "on the spot" at whatever the going rate. That price  says Stevenson  increased by 26 cents per gallon ahead of Irma. As of Tuesday  the average price of a gallon is $2.71 in Florida  up more than 44 cents from last month. (That price increase is also due in part to Harvey-related fuel shortages.)
This week  as evacuees try to head home  Florida gas stations are still scrambling to refuel. Florida's ports had to shut down while Irma tore through the state  which means incoming shipments are now running on a delay. Now three of them are back online  but with Houston refineries still incapacitated  meeting gas demand is going to be a challenge for some time. Oil shipments are coming in  but the lights are still out at multiple fuel terminals. Many gas stations remain without power too.
It might be another week before Florida's stations are topped off and back in business  but those recovery efforts could be hampered if Hurricane Jose veers towards a U.S. landfall. "Pardon the cliche  but this was all a perfect storm  with Harvey preceding  Irma " Stevenson  says. Now  the window to get Florida running again before the next hit might already be closing.
 Irma  is not the last climate change-juiced hurricane Florida will experience: More storms  and more evacuations  loom in its future. Harvey and Irma's back-to-back blows highlight just how fragile the state's position in the global oil supply chain isâand how profoundly the state  like the rest of the country  relies on this limited (and not readily portable) resource. In transit-deficient South Florida  personal vehicles remain the default mode of evacuation for most of the population. If there is not enough gas for themâand if other climate-related disasters are affecting supplyâthere ought to be other  more gas-efficient ways of getting out.
That would have left more gas  that most precious emergency commodity  to go around. And there would have been fewer tailpipes spewing the emissions that are fueling climate changeâand sharpening the teeth on storms like  Irma .

SOLUTION: Irma

PROBLEM: âDespite the government shutdown  (the department) determined the operational necessity of television and radio broadcasts constitutes them as essential activities â  chief Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White  said. âWe will continue to find solutions to support our troops at home and abroad.â
 Her  announcement followed outcry about overseas U.S. service members not being able to see the two games Sunday afternoon  particularly since officials have said military personnel wonât get paid during the furlough  which started overnight Friday.
 White  described some legal and manpower maneuvering to get the games on air.  She  said two of the eight Armed Forces Network channels -- news and sports -- will remain on  despite the network being run by civilians  who have been furloughed in the shutdown.
âWith minimal manning  we can keep the sports channel up without incurring any additional cost or manpower-complying with shutdown guidance  " White  said in a statement. âThanks to uniform leadership at AFN  our comptroller and legal team.â
 She  said the news channel remains on because the contract has already been paid and the sports channel was turned on because âit doesn't cost any more money or manpower to manage a second channel.â
Still   White  had some sharp words for Congress  whose failure to pass a temporary spending resulted in the shutdown.
âThe shutdown requires us to do a lot of tedious work â  she  said. âCongress needs to pass a budget.â

SOLUTION: Dana White

PROBLEM: PALO ALTO  Calif. (Reuters) -  Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan  said on Tuesday  he  wants to see more signs of upward inflation before raising interest rates again  but that low long-term borrowing costs may limit how far and fast rates can be raised.
The Fed has raised rates twice this year  and is widely expected to do so again in December. But even as the short-term interest rate targeted by the Fed has climbed  the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has fallen  a reversal of what usually happens and a development that  Kaplan  said  he  sees as âa little ominous.â
âI view that as a comment on future economic growth â  Kaplan  said at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. âAnd what I donât want to see us do is raise rates so fast that we get an inverted yield curve because history has shown an inverted yield curve has tended to be a precursor to a recession. â
Kaplan  who votes this year on Fed policy   appeared on Tuesday to be wrestling with how to balance the costs of leaving rates low against the potential dangers of raising rates too fast.  He  repeated  his  concern that globalization and technology are keeping inflation muted  despite unemployment that sank in September to 4.2 percent.
While near-full employment is putting some upward pressure on inflation   he  said on Wednesday  those secular forces are acting as headwinds.
âIâll be looking for evidence that we are making progress or likely to make progress over the medium term in reaching our 2-percent (inflation) target â  Kaplan  told reporters after the event.
Asked by a reporter what he thinks of former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh   Kaplan  said  he  believes disagreement at the Fed is healthy.
âI think very highly of Kevin â  Kaplan  said. â He  and I may disagree on some things. I think thatâs a good thing....I am confident that a good decision will be made and the Fed will operate very effectively in the future  including if itâs Janet Yellen  who I think has done an outstanding job.â

SOLUTION:
Robert Kaplan