1. Very amateurish question. Could the demand destruction have happened at the same place as the supply destruction? I.e., could the destruction of New Orleans and environs have meant as big a reduction in US car traffic etc. as the shut-in production?

2. I'm not familiar with US usage pattens, but I recall buzzwords like "summer driving season" and "winter heating season". Could this have played a role too? Won't real problems start now if winter turns colder? (Tough long-term predictions I read somewhere, possibly Wunderground, say this winter will be mild globally.)

Now what will happen this winter is still an open question.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

yellow background indicates that the Metadata should be consulted

Where can I access the Metadata? Can I even do so, or does this refer to stuff restricted to paying users? If the latter, are you such a user, and would you be allowed to tell us about what you found there in public? (I would obviously be interested in the February and April 2005 data on Venezuela.)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}