Posted on 02/23/2021 8:21:50 AM PST by KeyLargo
BREAKING: Train carrying oil tankers collides with an 18-wheeler in central Texas, sparking a massive explosion - but the driver and conductor both survive without major injuries
The crash occurred at around 6.45am Tuesday outside Cameron, Texas The train was carrying oil tankers that exploded on impact with the semi-truck The explosion sparked a massive fire that was still burning hours later Both the train conductor and the truck driver survived without major injuries
By Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:50 EST, 23 February 2021 | Updated: 11:10 EST, 23 February 2021
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RE: leaving this country....
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When there was idle chatter on talk radio especially before Trump, people yearned for a free country respecting freedom and rights of the individual-—unlike Leftist America’s powerful downward trend.
Cliche is Australia or New Zealand. No longer England (Muslim Mayor of London....) or Europe (welcome Muslims....).
But I heard New Zealand has a job replacement government policy in which you the employer if you lay off someone, are required to somehow locate a job for the person. You will be responsible for his income and housing and food until you get him or her settled successfully. Plus some pro Muslim policies the past 2-3 years. No thanks.
Texans: All we needed. More bad news.
We needed a bunch of those scattered about Texas last week to get the temps up.
Thank God no one was killed or even seriously injured.
This particular train has zero to do with keystone. The RR line that runs through Cameron is not carrying oil from Canada to the Texas City area refineries. That line comes town east of Dallas and through East Texas it’s a BNSF line. This train was carrying good ole fashion South Texas oil as is evident by the volatility of the oil as well. This oil was from the Eagle.Ford Shale play that’s not far from Cameron Texas. Eagle.Ford oils are light oils with a high API and also a high amount of gas condensate which makes it extremely volatile. Canadian oil is naturally nearly would at room temps it much thicker than honey and cannot explode in this fashion. It’s so thick that it must be diluted with naptha before loading into rail cars but even diluted it’s still API 15_20 no where near the API 40+ of sweet West or south Texas crude. I have drilled probably 300 Eagle Ford shale wells as an ops geo the oil looks like diesel coming out it’s straw colored not black and then enough to run in a diesel as is from the ground in a lot of areas especially down dip towards the Gulf.
The headline should be “Truck in central Texas carrying an idiot collides with oil transporting train.” to clarify situational causality.
So then we should just ignore the disasters when the oil rail tankers coming from Canada derail?
If the US falls, the international Left will crush freedom everywhere. There will be nowhere to escape to.
Mechanics, when using a torch to seal up a leak in a gas tank, fill the tank with gas so that it won’t explode. The fumes are what are dangerous. I saw that it “instantly” burst into flames, suggesting the tanks were empty and only contained some sort of fuel in “gas” form.
But I could be all wet. The post was supposed to be a conversation starter.
Thank GOD we weren’t sending oil or gas through a pipeline.
I feel much better sending those things via an industry that can’t run itself, make a profit, or maintain its infrastructure.
Have you picked a destination yet? I just started looking in November.
If only there was a safer method of moving oil......
Where are you going? If you don’t mind saying.
I think folks get it may not be at all directly relevant to the pipeline.
But I think most people can point to a rail accident and correctly deduce that railways are inherently worse in nearly every way than a pipeline for transporting oil and gas.
@JD_UTDallas.... maybe not Keystone specifically but pipelines in general it has everything to do with it. Why ship oil on trains when we can use more pipelines? There is more environmental damage from this one wreck than anything that would happen from constructing the whole Keystone. You can be a petrochemical expert but that doesn’t mean you know more than the rest of us about the politics of the situation. I’m sure you did not mean it that way.
I live 3 blocks from a railroad bridge that crosses the Mississippi River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. There is a railroad crossing just on this side of the river. This is a busy rail line and I see many long trains of tanker cars coming down from North Dakota.
They use the excuse that the pipeline would cause environmental damage. They ignore the risk that already exists.
NOTHING on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC.....Just checked.
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