My state has a great deal of energy production and infrastructure that involves substantial Homeland Security risk, ... As we've seen the hurricanes impact our energy infrastructure on the Gulf Coast, it further underlines the importance of safeguarding our nation's energy interests.

My state has a great deal of energy production and infrastructure that involves substantial Homeland Security risk. As we've seen the hurricanes impact our energy infrastructure on the Gulf Coast, it further underlines the importance of safeguarding our nation's energy interests.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

[Katrina, however, knocked out a substantial portion of the nation's petroleum infrastructure, especially refineries that produce gasoline, when gas supplies were already stretched thin.] The larger worry may not be Katrina itself, ... but if energy prices were to continue their sharp climb.

But it could have an enormous beneficial impact on energy security and the U.S. economy.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.