Posted on 02/18/2015 5:09:45 AM PST by ABN 505
Yesterday, a train derailed in West Virginia — and exploded. It was carrying more than 100 tons of crude oil, and it burst into flames after going off the rails outside of Charleston. Miraculously, no one was killed, though hundreds were evacuated and one man was hospitalized.
Social media users were understandably alarmed by the magnitude of the fire, and photos of the incident quickly spread — looking more like a scene from an action film than anything else. The crash, which could contaminate the entire local water supply, is more than just a West Virginia-specific disaster: It's a reminder that we still have not figured out a safe way to transport oil.
(Excerpt) Read more at refinery29.com ...
Laying pipe? That is by far the safest way to transport oil. If we did that, environmentalists would have to work harder to find an excuse to complain. They could do it, but it might strain their tiny little minds.
Until all the anti oil libs boycott any and ALL energy derived from oil, they are just noise. That means buses, subways, and most electricity because at a minimum the employees of that nuke plant arrive in gasoline powered vehicles. Until I see them living in a candle lit house, walking or growing their own food, I don’t want to hear their complaints. Oh, and no bicycles cause the manufacturing process creates harmful greenhouse gases. And those useless google searches cause the servers to work harder thereby creating more harmful emissions
Initially, when I first saw this event on TV, I was in the other room. Couldn’t hear what was going on and thought it Russian shelling of Debaltseve, Ukraine...
Epic fail, Laura.
Since a rail tanker car carries roughly 30,000 gallons +/- of liquid (at about 7 lbs. per gallon) and there were 109 cars in this train, it had over 11,000 tons of crude aboard.
The rest of the article is just as absurd.
Strictly speaking, 11,000 IS more than 100, I suppose.
The author is a real ignorant idiot to equate rail accidents to pipeline leaks, then conclude “The President hasn’t said he opposes the pipeline overall — just that he doesn’t want to sign the bill until a State Department study of its safety is finished. Which seems like a good idea.”
It’s been the subject of dozens of studies going back a decade or more. Obama isn’t waiting for a study to certify its safety — he’s killing fossil fuels. End of story..
But I don’t go to blogs about fashion, beauty, wellness, and other goofy irrelevant things for hard engineering analysis.
time to start laying pipeline when that great liberal savior of mankind Warren Buffet invests in it, instead of in Burlington Northern (check out the history, what did he know, when did he know it)
Nobody is in charge of common sense anymore.
Does not this huge amount of money influence or more likely control USA environmental policy and related groups? Does this huge amount of money not do just about anything it wants within USA? ...changing the word jihad into extremist, pointing the finger at real USAians instead of people of the pieces and immigrants with beliefs alien to USA?
“It’s a reminder that we still have not figured out a safe way to transport oil.”
Actually, we have. It is through a PIPELINE.
In the Canadian oil sands, bitumen produced by surface mining is generally upgraded on-site and delivered as synthetic crude oil. This makes delivery of oil to market through conventional oil pipelines quite easy.
Of the gazillion miles of existing oil pipelines that have been in use starting when? Over a century ago? The author fears “two dozen” leaks?
If the history and performance of the trans-Alaska pipeline provides any example, it is that we *must* transport by pipeline as much as possible!
The author is a coward. He should just come out and reveal his true agenda: destroy the oil industry to trigger economic collapse and usher in a socialist paradise.
It tells me the railroaders are better crony capitalists than the pipeline builders.
In DC, and especially with the Chicago Mob, it ALWAYS follow the money.
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