Warning issued about oil shipped from North Dakota, Montana | Fox News
It seems that shipping oil by rail is dangerous ... ah, that is news?
Ok, it has fallen off the radar, but that is why they invented long-distance pipelines, like the Keystone Pipeline that the Obama Administration has done its best to block ... even if it pisses off our neighbors, the Canadians.
The US needs hydrocarbon-based fuels to exist. Don't like that? Get over it. Sorry, but unless you want to destroy the economy, kill a whole bunch of people, then the US needs natural gas, oil and coal products. Of course, if you are fine with millions starving or freezing, then, by all means, continue to block the use of hydrocarbons to power our world ... only would you please volunteer you and yours to stand at the front of the line to die ... because I don't want me and mine to die for your folly.
I can remember back to the first big news story I covered at the first newspaper I worked for (I was its editor and sole news staff member) and a train derailed in the tiny town of Belpre, Kansas. It came about fifty feet from being a huge disaster for the small town of maybe 150 people, because a freight car almost hit an oil car on the siding that would have caught fire (probably), which would have spread to the grain elevator beside it (with lots of red winter wheat in it, and full of grain dust), which then probably would have exploded (with the force of a small nuclear weapon as grain dust is wont to do) and flattened everything in its vicinity.
So, if shipping oil products by rail seems "safe" to you ... well, all things are relative when it comes to safety ... remember, that there are trade-offs we make in life. The choice always is yours.
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