[Hunton Peck]

It's a "documentary filmmaker" leading the hysteria on this one.

Anything to make America impoverished and energy-free.

Oh, and did I mention these people are nuts? Specifically, they're eremikophobes.

[Red Badger]

Sand?......

WE MUST EVACUATE THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!

[SoDak]

And the Red Star Tribune is only too willing to assist in creating some sort of hysteria. It really grinds against the leftists that the Dakotas are providing a nice stream of American oil, and there are very few wing nuts locally to provide roadblocks.

[matt04]

The title should be “Jim Tittle, a St. Paul activist and filmmaker complains about sand in rail cars.”

[ansel12]

Even California allows sand.

[Kirkwood]

Insandity

[this_ol_patriot]

Read the comments under the article, they're crazier than the article, the first one even blames Bush and not in a sarcastic way.

WTH are they smoking up there?

[Kirkwood]

She was young and beautiful, but met her end from a lethal dose of silica.

[ccmay]

Silicosis is no laughing matter. Sandblasters, miners and such can really suffer from it if they don’t diligently use a good respirator around airborne rock dust. Sand passing by in a rail car seems unlikely to offer the same risk but I would not dismiss it out of hand.

[Hardraade]

You absolutely cannot make this stuff up. I just hope these retards are not of Scandinavian descent.

[dirtboy]

Well, naturally-ocurring sand can get picked up by wind and blown around to where unsuspecting citizens breathe it in. So the answer is obvious - we must outlaw wind.