[Recon Dad]

This post leads to the question of why more oil pipelines don’t run east to west?
I have a pipeline map and considering the population centers on the coast you would think major pipelines to both
coasts would be a matter of economics.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

[thackney]

This post leads to the question of why more oil pipelines don’t run east to west?

Multiple reasons include the Rocky Mountains.

I think that the West Coast was self sufficient for a significantly long time. By the time they needed imports on the West side of the Rockies, they already needed them on east side as well.

There is not much incentive to transport imported oil from one coastline to another. They can just import their own.