[thackney]

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[Olog-hai]

I’ve wondered lately if trains are unsafe these days due to flouting the FRA’s regulations—or due to complying with them. Transporting oil by train isn’t a new thing after all; oil tankers have been around since the 1880s at least.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

How many dead people piled on Obama’s doorstep because of his indecisiveness does it take to stop voting present.

[mountainlion]

Our nation energy policy run by OPEC has left us much to be desired to us people. The pResident wants to keep supplies low and prices high to maximize profits for OPEC. Big oil is one of the most controlled industries in the US and are held to low production to keep OPEC happy. With the cold and shortages it creates a death panel to cause Americans to freeze to death.

[marron]

Keystone XL would carry 830,000 bpd from Alberta's oil sands U.S. refiners

This offsets 830,000 bpd of crude brought in by ocean-going tankers.

If the environment was the primary concern, this would be a good thing. If you could eliminate an endless parade of tankers crossing the Atlantic, or the Caribbean, why would you not?

I of course believe the point of denying Keystone is to protect the 830,000 bpd brought in from overseas. Denying Keystone hurts the environment but helps OPEC.

[marron]

Shipping by rail adds something like $15 bucks a barrel to the cost.

[Dagnabitt]

Since oil-by-rail will eventually, if they haven't already, kill someone from a racial, ethnic or sexual-preference minority (i.e. someone who "counts" to liberals), let me be the first to say:

Stop the Hate Trains!

[indthkr]

"oil-laden freight trains from Canada may result in an average of six additional rail-related deaths per year, according to a U.S. State Department

LOL, probably the same government computer modelling team that has been predicting the disappearance of the polar ice caps due to CO2 induced global warming...

[American Constitutionalist]

Get on with it, build the darn thing already !

[American Constitutionalist]

Thackney I don't know all the engineering and such, but ?
I saw a video recently in how they make those drainage corrugated steel tubes.
These drainage corrugated steel tubes are made on a machine where they take a roll of steel and send it into some kind of break ? press ? that forms the corrugations.
Then it is some how extruded out of the machine and then it rolls the steel into the tube form.
From that point it is still on this machine that welds it.
All of this is done on one huge machine and then when it is at it's proper length it is cut.... cool to watch.
Could they build a pipe line like this ? or does the pipe line piece by piece and the steel tubes have to be steel tubes with welded straight seams ?
What I am hoping ? that they can build the Keystone pipeline in record time like they did with the Empire State building during the depression and 1930s.