...Responsiveness. Rail facilities (click here) can almost always be built or expanded much more quickly than pipelines and refineries can be.
Essentially, railroads are the only transportation mode that can invest in facilities quickly enough to keep up with production growth in the
emerging oil fields....
Why is responsiveness important? Because rail services can adjust to
changing markets without huge and permanent infrastructure projects
that endanger water supplies and farm crops.
changing markets without huge and permanent infrastructure projects
that endanger water supplies and farm crops.
It also means, as the USA's demand for oil and gas drops the rail services
can respond easily to that decreasing commodity.
...Moving Crude Oil Safely Railroads have an excellent crude oil safety
record — better, in fact, than pipelines in recent years. Based on data
from the U.S.Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration, the “spill rate” for U.S. railroads
from 2002-2012 was an estimated 2.2 gallons per million crude oil
ton-miles generated. The comparable spill rate for pipelines is nearly
three times the rail rate at approximately 6.3 gallons per million
ton-miles.
Pipelines carry —and spill — much more crude oil than railroads do. From 2002-2012, an estimated 19.9 million gallons (474,000 barrels) of crude
oil were spilled in pipeline incidents, compared with an estimated
95,000 gallons (2,300 barrels) of crude oil spilled in rail incidents over the same period.
The rail figure is less than 1 percent of the pipeline figure....
These statistics fly in the face of the disastrous train derailments of oil
cars recently in Canada and USA. These derailments just don't happen that
often. I don't take phenomena like that lightly. If pipelines were safer,
I'd say there were safe, but, they are not. It is why I find those three derailments very suspicious. None of it makes sense when the facts about
the safety or the freight railroads are examined.
Do Americans realize how much of their economy moves on rail?
Think about it.
Then realize how much the media is lying about the issue regarding the
promotion of a more dangerous transportation method in the Keystone
pipeline. Then ask why would the media do that?
Then realize how much the media is lying about the issue regarding the
promotion of a more dangerous transportation method in the Keystone
pipeline. Then ask why would the media do that?
Interesting, isn't it?
