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Gas prices up as Gustav threatens Gulf refineries (AP)

This handout picture taken 13 July 2006 shows a portion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline at the Ceyhan crude oil terminal near Turkey's southern coastal city of Adana. The United States is worried that after the Georgian conflict, US strategic interests in Ukraine and Azerbaijan -- especially in oil -- could be at serious risk.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Retail gas prices swung higher Friday — the first increase in 43 days — as analysts warned that a direct hit on U.S. energy infrastructure by Tropical Storm Gustav could send pump prices hurtling toward $5 a gallon.





Gulf Coast prepares as storm Gustav approaches (AP)

A worker sandbags a doorway, at a seaside resort in preparation for a possible storm surge as the Gustav storm system approaches, on Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman Island, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Tropical Storm Gustav has drenched Jamaica and threatenes to menace the Cayman Islands, setting off alarm from Cuba to New Orleans. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - With a new storm threatening to cause chaos in New Orleans all over again, a horse-drawn carriage brought the last seven unclaimed bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims for entombment at a memorial site on Friday during ceremonies marking the disaster's third anniversary.





Oil prices rally on threat from Tropical Storm Gustav (AFP)

Traders are pictured in the crude oil pit on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange on August 28, 2008. Oil prices rebounded on Friday as Tropical Storm Gustav risked becoming a hurricane once more, threatening key US energy production and refinery facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, traders said.(AFP/Getty Images/Michael Nagle)AFP - Oil prices rebounded on Friday as Tropical Storm Gustav risked becoming a hurricane once more, threatening key US energy production and refinery facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, traders said.





Gustav threatens Caymans after swamping Jamaica (AP)

The check-in counter at American Airlines, busy already at dawn, with people trying to get onto the last few flights off the island before the arrival of the Gustav storm system, in George Town, Grand Cayman Island, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Tropical Storm Gustav has drenched Jamaica and threatenes to menace the Cayman Islands, setting off alarm from Cuba to New Orleans.(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Deadly Gustav drenched Jamaica and menaced the Cayman Islands on Friday, and on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, forecasters said for the first time there's a better-than-even chance that New Orleans will get slammed by tropical storm-force winds.





Deadly Gustav lashes Jamaica, eyes Cuba, US (AFP)

This NOAA handout satellite image shows Tropical Storm Gustav located east-southeast of Grand Cayman. Gustav thrashed Jamaica Friday and was on track to crash into Cuba as a hurricane after leaving up to 78 people dead in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.(AFP/HO NOAA/Ho)AFP - Deadly Tropical Storm Gustav thrashed Jamaica Friday and was on track to crash into Cuba as a hurricane after leaving up to 78 people dead in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.





Storm Gustav poised to become a hurricane (Reuters)

A dog and its owner walk through a flooded street in Havana August 26, 2008. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav was expected to strengthen in the warm Caribbean on Friday as it left flooded Jamaica and churned toward the Cayman Islands, headed for the Gulf of Mexico on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's deadly strike on New Orleans.





Hurricane-force winds, heavy rain hit Phoenix area (AP) AP - A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, briefly shutting down the airport and ripping the roof off a brand-new college football facility.


New Orleans marks Katrina anniversary as Gustav looms (Reuters)

Rev. L.M. Pierce looks on as workers install plywood over windows on her house in New Orleans, Louisiana, in preparation for Hurricane Gustav, August 28, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)Reuters - Residents of New Orleans paused on Friday to mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow even as another potentially deadly storm churned their way.





Hurricanes: Our 5 Worst Fears (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com - On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall in New Orleans, residents all along the U.S. coastline today cast a wary eye out to Tropical Storms Gustav and Hanna, both predicted to ramp up to hurricane strength and possibly strike the United States early next week. The 2005 season - the busiest season on r......


Oil rises to $117 on storm threat to U.S. output (Reuters)

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez takes a sample of crude during his weekly broadcast at a nationalized oil field at Orinoco's belt in the southern strip of the eastern Orinoco River February 17, 2008. (Miraflores Palace/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Oil rose by more than $1 to above $117 a barrel on Friday, as Tropical Storm Gustav was poised to enter the Gulf of Mexico, raising concerns about its impact on U.S. offshore oil and gas output.





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