...and how tank cars of styrene, propane, ethane, anhydrous ammonia, HCL, HF, and other things you would not want to spill in your lap are safe.........but not a tank car full of crude.
No bias in that article, no suh!
When the lame stream media first talked about the report that showed Bakken crude more “flammable or explosive” compared to heavy crudes, they never mentioned Bakken wasn’t a heavy crude.
Essentially all light crudes are more “flammable or explosive” than heavy crudes.
Fake but accurate...
You have to be liberal, to understand the liberal outrage about oil moving in tank cars. But no corresponding liberal outrage about other substances moving by rail.
Glad somebody else noticed that bias. The level of potentially toxic tank cars being handled in NJ was already well up there but that fact is ignored to demagogue on a particular light crude oil.
Only two things had to change to have made the disaster in Canada not happen: improper maintenance on the locomotive that resulted a fire which required the local FD to come out to shut off the engine to extinguish the fire and the engineer setting the required number of handbrakes on the cars in the train so the loss of the air system upon the shutdown of the locomotive could not result in the train’s uncontrolled movement into town.
I work in the rail industry and have designed and constructed rail loadouts for crude by rail transloads. It's very satisfying work knowing that I am helping to create employment and secure the nation's energy needs... and that the result is that MAYBE American soldiers will need not be shipped to the Middle East to protect the oil supply... (how about China secure it's own energy interests there? I mean, they have BILLIONS of surplus young men to deploy).
Well just last week I was having a conversation with a coworker about all the recent alarmism over these "unsafe" DOT-111 tank cars, and he made the comment, "Gee, where is all the outrage over Candy Stripe Tanks carrying chlorine gas?" ["Candy Stripe" cars were tradtionally painted white with a red center stripe to denote they as especially hazardous].