How does it help the environment to have the oil transported in a train rather than a pipeline?
It sure does help Warren Buffet’s financial environment...he owns the choo-choos.
The majority of environmentalists rarely think beyond the immediate emotion of the issue in front of them. They begin with a premise - oil is bad or coal is bad - and they cannot think beyond that.
This lack of depth has given us “solutions” that are worse than the problem. I truly believe they would block any new form of clean energy based on oil or coal just as they have blocked anything that says nuclear for decades. It’s emotion, not reason, that guides them. Combined with the new green energy crony capitalism it is difficult to overcome.
There is big money betting against it. There is big money betting for it. Reason says to build it - emotion says to kill it. The delays already reveal how corrupted we have become to crony-environmentalism. Our nation has a fever, but it’s not the one Al Gore talked about.
They don't want the oil transported at all. They prefer it stays in the ground
Well, the liberals don’t want oil transported in a train either. They don’t want us to transport oil at all. They want us to build windmills and solar panels.
It boosts Buffets bottom line.