Posted on 04/24/2014 4:33:51 PM PDT by nascarnation
Obama has blocked pipeline construction to reward his railroad owning buddies like Warren Buffet.
Minivans are now shipped in Tank Cars?
Oil trains now go through Detroit on their way to Ontario?
Detroit is the second busiest freight crossing on the continent.
Engines to pull them, engines to bring back the empties to reload with cars. Much more profitable to pull tank cars, I reckon. Look for shipping surcharges to be added to the new vehicle price.
Hey! How about if we build a pipeline. That would work. Don’t ya think?
Port Huron?
To do that they'd pretty much have to come through Chicago.
You are to smart to be a serf, you should be president.
I would think most of the crude going to Sarnia would be through the Embridge pipeline. They just doubled capacity on it.
However a lot of freight passes through Detroit both by train and truck. Availability of trains will make a difference.
It isn't about crossings at Detroit, it's about A) a nation-wide shortage of locomotives and B) trains literally having to wait for an available slot, all over the US, but especially along lines coming out of Alberta and North Dakota.
Trains around here are running almost bumper-to-bumper.
At least they don't come through here. Sounds like there are plenty running through the RR tunnel.
An increase in tank car traffic of a whopping 5,000% over 6 years.
Good thing I’m not Pres. I would piss off Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn for sure.
If there is so much oil in transit then why the heck did I just pay $4.05 a gallon for premium? I gotta get a different car.
If there is so much oil in transit then why the heck did I just pay $4.05 a gallon for premium?
Refineries ?
I know there are restrictions in the US for NEW refineries, but why isn’t Canada building refineries ?
Doing a little digging and it looks like you’re right, a lot of oil is moving through Detroit and Windsor.
I’m betting that people in Detroit don’t have a clue that “The one” allows the danger. Looking at maps and I see a potential disaster that could kill thousands.
Some research (I’m definitely not a rail expert) indicates that oil tankers are pretty heavy per car compared to typical freight cars. So the “typical” tanker train is pulling the max weight that the locomotives can handle for the grades to be traversed at the speeds required.
Or Mexico? Plenty of other Maquiladora-type factories along the border. Why not a refinery or 25?
I was going to say Mexico, but I figured Carlos “Slim Shady” is happy to make his money from US taxes as opposed to US consumers.
There’s more single track than there used to be, so trains are limited in length by the length of the passing sidings.
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