Politics and petrol problems

摘要

The end of September saw a crisis on Wall Street and a garbled response from Congress. No wonder, then, that all eyes were trained on New York and Washington. But the south-eastern states were dealing with more immediate problems: petrol panics, property damage and missing people. The Gulf coast was hit by two hurricanes in September, Gustav and Ike. Neither was catastrophic, as forecasters had feared. But they were bad enough.