Here is a good way to see the trends in news reports on pipeline explosions.
The chart displayed shows there actually was a big peak around 2000, then again in 2007. Doesn’t seem like 2010 is out of pattern. I wouldn’t read too much into the dropping numbers before 95 because of the fewer archived stories loaded on the web.
I checked this out... Some of the “peaks” are just the same news articles reported by a lot of different sources (therefore a large number of news “hits”). This doesn’t mean the actual numbers of incidents were high, just the number of news items about it were high.
I did some searches back in May about all this, the oil refineries, coal mines, energy plant, and now these. There are accidents over the years, but fatal accidents are not that common.
A few folks came on FR to refute these concerns, but the numbers they used are from this admin’s energy department numbers and the steelworker’s union which is a huge democrat supporter (which used the same numbers). Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
I would feel a lot better if some independent entity would take a look at this, one that is not somehow connected to Obama (not that he has an agenda or anything /s)