whysoserious
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Re: Senate passes bill approving Keystone XL oil pipeline Associated Press By DINA CA
From a conservative think tank? I think this sums it up best:
Pick Your Poison For Crude -- Pipeline, Rail, Truck Or Boat - Forbes
They all suck.
From a conservative think tank? I think this sums it up best:
Pick Your Poison For Crude -- Pipeline, Rail, Truck Or Boat - Forbes
The short answer is: truck worse than train worse than pipeline worse than boat (Oilprice.com). But that’s only for human death and property destruction. For the normalized amount of oil spilled, it’s truck worse than pipeline worse than rail worse than boat (Congressional Research Service). Different yet again is for environmental impact (dominated by impact to aquatic habitat), where it’s boat worse than pipeline worse than truck worse than rail.
So it depends upon what your definition is for worse. Is it death and destruction? Is it amount of oil released? Is it land area or water volume contaminated? Is it habitat destroyed? Is it CO2 emitted?
They all suck.