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Time to ‘aggressively phase out’ old, unsafe tank cars carrying oil, says CN
Calgary Herald ^
| JANUARY 13, 2014
| BRUCE CHEADLE
Posted on 01/14/2014 11:07:32 AM PST by thackney
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01/14/2014 11:07:32 AM PST
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thackney
To: thackney
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posted on
01/14/2014 11:10:29 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: thackney
Hmm. A bone thrown to Carl Icahn? (He owns ACF.)
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01/14/2014 11:11:51 AM PST
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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01/14/2014 11:12:18 AM PST
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thorvaldr
To: thackney
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01/14/2014 11:15:50 AM PST
by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: thackney
Or, we could construct a safer alternative than rail transport - perhaps, oh, I don’t know, a pipeline?
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01/14/2014 11:16:03 AM PST
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WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
To: WayneS
A transporter is their dream.
To: WayneS
That will not make Warren Buffett very happy.
To: thackney
I’ll wager that by the end of 2014, more people will be dead as a result of ObamaCare than have died from train crashes during the entire existence of the DOT 111 cars.
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01/14/2014 11:17:46 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
To: thackney
80,000 tanks * 100,000 (Cost of new) = $8,000,000,000.
$2 billion a year for 4 years. Ought to do it.
Then another $2 billion a year for 4 more years to replace the defective tanks we bought from China during the first 4 years, because we are too stupid to buy American.
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01/14/2014 11:18:33 AM PST
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DannyTN
(A>)
To: thorvaldr
No pipeline is going to be built while Buffett is still alive and owning BNSF.
You think its an accident that Keystone wasn’t built?
To: thackney
What’s the cost of this vs. a pipeline?
To: Olog-hai
Warren Buffett owns Union Tank Car.
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posted on
01/14/2014 11:23:56 AM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: thackney
I have a 65 year old hammer that still works.
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posted on
01/14/2014 11:25:32 AM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: VRWCarea51
Mr. Buffet will be perfectly happy.
Tank cars, in North America, are privately owned; so when the railroad industry combines to prematurely retire the existing tank car fleet, they don't bear the direct cost. (Indirectly, they bear the cost of any inefficiency which might transfer a competitive advantage to a competing mode, but the railroad industry never really has come to grips with the fact that transportation is competitive).
To: thackney
Five major derailments in Canada involving tank cars during the past 12 months. Build the pipeline.
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01/14/2014 11:35:26 AM PST
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Dartman
(CDN PM Stephen Harper may not be perfect, but we don't have to be ashamed or embarassed of him.)
To: WayneS
Obviously a pipeline is needed. Obvious to all except greenie imbeciles
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01/14/2014 11:36:59 AM PST
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dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: thackney
Whew!!! When they said "tank cars" I thought they meant like my 1970 Buick Estate Wagon.
It ain't phasing out anywhere.
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01/14/2014 11:42:16 AM PST
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fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: thackney
The rail cars are getting around the pipeline ban so the rail cars have to be banned also.
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01/14/2014 11:42:44 AM PST
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arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: Resolute Conservative
Their dream is to further hamper the transportation of oil to the refiners.
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01/14/2014 11:44:30 AM PST
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arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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