[thackney]

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[Vermont Lt]

I wonder what the IRS depreciation table is for a railroad tanker?

My guess is its something like 14 years.

[Navy Patriot]

Good thing we have Warren Buffett’s railroad to step in for those disastrously unsafe pipelines.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Finish the Keystone pipeline and forget the rail cars.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

crony capitalism, pipeline prevention, JP Morgan

[Buckeye McFrog]

When the government set the original deadline for the digital TV transition there were not enough trained tower crews on the planet to possibly carry it out.

[Obadiah]

Lunacy. Absolute lunacy that crude is transported on a wholesale basis in about the most inefficient way possible. And all because of Obama who denies the pipelines.

Shameful. By the way, how much greenhouse gasses are created due to using rail versus pipelines. Where is AlGore.

[Lockbox]

Bet they could built the Keystone pipeline in less then seven years!

[factoryrat]

The problem is that the companies who build new tankcars can’t build them fast enough. The railroad that I work for has an order in for 8000 new DOT spec. 23,000 gallon tank cars, and it’s going to be a long lead time on those.
And those new DOT regs apply to more than just tankcars for crude. What we haul as far as hazmat commodities goes, dwarfs the crude volume that we haul, and those will require the new tankcars also.