teamosil
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Actually, forest fires typically burn at temperatures around 1470 degrees F. Far to low to damage an object buried 4 ft down.
Definitely a typical forest fire wouldn't...
I think you're kind of losing track of the discussion. You claimed that pipelines were much safer than boats by volume. I said that may be true, but I would like to see actual data, since there are a lot of potential dangers to pipelines too. Forest fires was one of many examples I posted. As of now, you haven't countered any of them except forest fires, and your position now seems to be that only some forest fires could cause that, and you haven't given any actual source showing that pipelines are safer. You aren't really advancing the discussion. Forget about forest fires. Even if no forest fire could ever impact a pipeline, that wouldn't change where we're at in the discussion at all. There would still be plenty of potential dangers with pipelines warranting an examination of the actual data, and we still wouldn't have that actual data.
So, still my gut tells me that's probably right that pipelines are slightly safer by volume, but I'm still not sure.