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Oil trains put US on target for more derailments, warn experts

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Oil trains put US on target for more derailments, warn experts | Fox News

Activists call them “bomb trains,” and they’re likely rolling through a town near you.

The oil boom in North Dakota and Alberta, Canada, has put a record number of train cars on tracks carrying hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil each day all across the U.S. Several accidents have already happened, and local leaders say it is a matter of time until more occur.

"The fuels that they're carrying now are very volatile so, in a highly residential area, an accident like that would be devastating,” Barrington, Illinois, Fire Chief Jim Arie told Fox News.
Hmmm, what could we do about this?
 
Be more responsible. Advocating for a meaningless side project is just distracting us from bigger problems at hand.
 
Be more responsible. Advocating for a meaningless side project is just distracting us from bigger problems at hand.

Meaningless side project?
 
If there were some way to pipe this stuff away from there instead of putting it on wheels...

Don't be silly. We are years away from that sort of pie-in-the-sky, sci-fi fantasy.
 
Meaningless side project?

It's what it is.

I don't care if it gets built or not, I just want this to be resolved, and by resolved, I mean people move the **** on. We've got bigger fish to catch.

Just ****ing build it or shut up, that goes for Obama and congress.
 
Wow, experts say if there's more trains then there's more likely to be train derailments.

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I thought I heard about a proposal to build something that was far safer, far more reliable, and cheaper too. What was that?
If there were some way to pipe this stuff away from there instead of putting it on wheels...
Can't quite put my finger on it, but there was something.
Wow, experts say if there's more trains then there's more likely to be train derailments.

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Yup. Pretty obvious to most thinking, just not presidents.
Ask Obama.
Exactly. Obama has seen fit to veto the Keystone-XL pipeline and put all the towns and neighborhoods through which the trains travel at risk, when there's a far better solution that many would rather have.
 
I thought I heard about a proposal to build something that was far safer, far more reliable, and cheaper too. What was that?

Can't quite put my finger on it, but there was something.

Yup. Pretty obvious to most thinking, just not presidents.

Exactly. Obama has seen fit to veto the Keystone-XL pipeline and put all the towns and neighborhoods through which the trains travel at risk, when there's a far better solution that many would rather have.

"Women and children, and especially minorities will be at risk." Isn't that the usual old line from the Left? Obama will have blood on his hands. Seems an obvious political blunder on his part. A clear case of "I told you so".
 
"Women and children, and especially minorities will be at risk." Isn't that the usual old line from the Left? Obama will have blood on his hands. Seems an obvious political blunder on his part. A clear case of "I told you so".

Doooo it for the chillllldddrennn!
 
Doooo it for the chillllldddrennn!

There are pipelines all over the country, they just made this one political because the econazis went into attention whore mode.
 
There are pipelines all over the country, they just made this one political because the econazis went into attention whore mode.

Yeah, pretty much. Ecomenalists. What's that famous little political quote overheard once: "I don't use oil. I ride the bus"?
Ranks right up there with "We should just stop using oil."
A distinct lack of understanding of the many, many, many things which petroleum is a source material for.

I challenge anyone to actually live without consuming any oil, or any product / thing in which oil plays a part.
I think you'd have to be living like back in the 1800 or 1700's. You first. Good luck with that.
 
Yeah, pretty much. Ecomenalists. What's that famous little political quote overheard once: "I don't use oil. I ride the bus"?
Ranks right up there with "We should just stop using oil."
A distinct lack of understanding of the many, many, many things which petroleum is a source material for.

I challenge anyone to actually live without consuming any oil, or any product / thing in which oil plays a part.
I think you'd have to be living like back in the 1800 or 1700's. You first. Good luck with that.

Many of those people have gone into stupid mode.
 
There are pipelines all over the country, they just made this one political because the econazis went into attention whore mode.

And the biggest attention whore of them all killed it.
 
Aren't Republicans the ones cutting transportation and infrastructure spending, and wouldn't they also be for deregulating the rail industry as well ?

:thinking
 
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