Get them Conti Four Seasons baby baby

The most amazing part of this article is the U.S. would use this seemingly massive reserve in 3 days.

If everything else went to zero, sure. But if everything else went to absolute zero, there are bigger problems than running out of reserves in Cushings, right? Technically if all other input was completely unavailable, I imagine it would have to be some root cause which would probably make the oil in these tanks unmovable as well.

I've read the strategic reserves are more a political play, and a impressive engineering feat, but actually drawing them down doesn't provide nearly the economic value versus just the fact we have them.

If you think Cushing storage of 3 days is massive, you will be shocked with Strategic Petroleum Reserve maintained by US govt, that covers a large swath underground below Texas and Louisiana states, and only holds about 30 days of consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_%2...

Actually, Cushing storage is not that much. Unlike SPR, it is mostly short term storage in between transit. Cushing is a transfer point between different pipelines that connect at Cushing which also later became a delivery point for oil and gas futures traded in futures market.

The norm for a country's total reserves is 90 days of imports (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_strategic_petroleum_r...)

US imports are about 1/4 of consumption (http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=32&t=6), so total reserves (including commercial storage) should be around 25 days.

As to Cushing, from both the article and what you say I would be more concerned about losing those pipes than of losing the oil stored there.

True, but consider how much flour America uses in 3 days: according to the USDA[1] we're looking at about 150,000 tons of flour per day.

We use a lot of stuff.

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/detail.a...

This sort of offends me - if they offer the option to remove your house entirely, they should offer it to all.

FIRST

Wait what? I thought this was a relevant reference to all-caps usage. Did they think I was serious?

Agree would love to see the HIPAA compliant article.

You shouldn't have to login to create a new item.

Ah - I forgot which one Williams was until you said "peanut bar"

Minnesota?

mmmmm The Wire

I turned it on and it's broken. Nice launch Twitter.

yeah, same here. all i'm getting is a "new login request" notification on the phone when trying to login on the desktop browser. but when opening the notification it says "no new login requests", and the website on the desktop jumps to "We're sorry, there were was an error. Please try logging in again.".

Having problems here. I get a notification on iOS but when I go there it says "No new login requests"

And seems we're not the only ones: https://twitter.com/search?q=No%20new%20login%20requests&src...

Now when I try and log in, it says it has sent a login request to my phone, my phone registers that as a notification, but when the Twitter app opens it says I have no login requests - so still not working.

Same with me. I can't log in to the Twitter Android app anymore.