[KarlInOhio]

The pipeline just sits there at zero mph while the train zips along at sixty. See, the train is faster.

The real question is which transports more oil, more cheaply and safer. And of course, more importantly, whether the CEO promotes higher taxes at Obama's direction. < /sarc>

[Orange1998]

I see the point but who is dumb enough to believe it.

[sternup]

The pipeline just sits there at zero mph while the train zips along at sixty. See, the train is faster.

no doubt about it..especially when you want to get Bakken crude to, say, a refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. You "freight train" the crude from the Dakotas to Albany, New York..you then pump it onto seagoing barges for a quick trip down the Hudson, so that you can then pump from the seagoing barge to a foreign flag tanker off of Rockaway. The foreign flag tanker probably takes three or four barges coming down from Albany to "fill it up"...then off to Corpus it goes.

This process is going on all day, every day, because of no pipeline.

Cheaper and faster?...riiiigggghhhht...

[LachlanMinnesota]

I think the issue is unions. The railroads are run by the unions, and the pipelines probably are not.

You can’t shorten the work day of a pipeline like you can an engineer with union rules.