April 17, 2015
By Joan Lowry
WASHINGTON (AP) — An emergency order (click here) requiring trains hauling crude oil and other flammable liquids to slow down as they pass through urban areas and a series of other steps to improve the safety were announced Friday by the Department of Transportation....
There are no baffles in the railroad tank cars to stop the 'splash' of the liquid. A tank car can be standing still and if the liquid inside is agitated enough it will destabilize the tank car.
,,,Major freight railroads have already limited oil trains to no more 40 mph in "high threat" urban areas under a voluntary agreement reached last year with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. But Friday's order makes the speed limitation a requirement and extends it to trains carrying other flammable liquids like ethanol.
However, investigators have said the trains in most of the recent accidents were traveling at less than 40 mph but still derailed....
The reason the tank cars are derailing is because the entire train consists of oil tank cars. There is no stable product on the trail. Each tank car has a wave motion in them and when one car wave motion disagrees with the wave motion of the next car it is linked to it derails.
The problem with the tar sands oil is the high percentage of naphtha in solution with oil. The mixture is dangerous no matter how it is transported. The naphtha explodes and then the oil burns for long periods of time.
The tar sands oil is a very dangerous chemical MIXTURE. Let's say there is a tanker car of naphtha being transported 2000 miles. It explodes for whatever reason it does. The explosion is severe, but, then it is over. It only explodes once. But, with tar sands there is an explosion and then the environment is left with burning oil that continues to burn until the last drop is burned away.
Welcome to the petroleum industry and it's lack of ethics or value of morality. The industry knows all this, they don't care. It is the same thing with natural gas. The infrastructure for natural gas fails and kills people and destroys property. They don't care. They let the insurance companies argue about the claims and the funeral industry bury the dead.
Tar sands need to be left to be tar sands with huge wetlands and rivers supporting endangered species of fish. The industry is a blight on the world. There is nothing moral about tar sands oil.
Stop allowing this product eligibility in international tax free zones in the USA. The product should be taxed and heavily considering the problem it creates for the USA.
The rail industry has to decide what safety is for their business. It needs to evaluate what liquids transport safely, such as milk. The worst that can happen with a milk car derailment is nutrition to the animals in the immediate vacinity.
By Joan Lowry
WASHINGTON (AP) — An emergency order (click here) requiring trains hauling crude oil and other flammable liquids to slow down as they pass through urban areas and a series of other steps to improve the safety were announced Friday by the Department of Transportation....
There are no baffles in the railroad tank cars to stop the 'splash' of the liquid. A tank car can be standing still and if the liquid inside is agitated enough it will destabilize the tank car.
,,,Major freight railroads have already limited oil trains to no more 40 mph in "high threat" urban areas under a voluntary agreement reached last year with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. But Friday's order makes the speed limitation a requirement and extends it to trains carrying other flammable liquids like ethanol.
However, investigators have said the trains in most of the recent accidents were traveling at less than 40 mph but still derailed....
The reason the tank cars are derailing is because the entire train consists of oil tank cars. There is no stable product on the trail. Each tank car has a wave motion in them and when one car wave motion disagrees with the wave motion of the next car it is linked to it derails.
The problem with the tar sands oil is the high percentage of naphtha in solution with oil. The mixture is dangerous no matter how it is transported. The naphtha explodes and then the oil burns for long periods of time.
The tar sands oil is a very dangerous chemical MIXTURE. Let's say there is a tanker car of naphtha being transported 2000 miles. It explodes for whatever reason it does. The explosion is severe, but, then it is over. It only explodes once. But, with tar sands there is an explosion and then the environment is left with burning oil that continues to burn until the last drop is burned away.
Welcome to the petroleum industry and it's lack of ethics or value of morality. The industry knows all this, they don't care. It is the same thing with natural gas. The infrastructure for natural gas fails and kills people and destroys property. They don't care. They let the insurance companies argue about the claims and the funeral industry bury the dead.
Tar sands need to be left to be tar sands with huge wetlands and rivers supporting endangered species of fish. The industry is a blight on the world. There is nothing moral about tar sands oil.
Stop allowing this product eligibility in international tax free zones in the USA. The product should be taxed and heavily considering the problem it creates for the USA.
The rail industry has to decide what safety is for their business. It needs to evaluate what liquids transport safely, such as milk. The worst that can happen with a milk car derailment is nutrition to the animals in the immediate vacinity.
