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Dramatic Explosion Footage: Warren Buffett-Owned Oil Freight Train Derails, Bursts Into Flames
Back in March 2013 we wrote a post presenting "the new US petroleum pipelines" in which we explained "why crony capitalist #1, the "rustic" Octogenarian of Omaha, and Obama tax advisor #1, Warren Buffett has been aggressively attempting to corner the railroad market, while the administration relentlessly refuses to allow assorted new, and very much competing petroleum pipelines from America's neighbor to the north to cross through the US." The answer was shown on the chart below which showed the exponential increase in petroleum rail car loadings.
It also explains why after Buffett's purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) in 2009, Obama has been so staunchly against allowing the Keystone XL pipeline: because if there is anything that would allow Buffett to preserve the momentum of his soaring oil transit business, it is maintaining a veto on any competing pipelines. A veto which Obama implemented for the latest time just a few days ago.
Of course, it would be uncouth of the US president to say that he is against a pipeline because one of his crony backers, his tax advisor ("push income tax higher all you want, but don't you dare touch that capital gains and dividend tax"), and perhaps the biggest single beneficiary of the government bailout of Wall Street in 2008, tells him to. So instead Obama, to appease his progressive rank and file, decided to crack down on the "danger" of pipelines - after all, the world is riddled with horror stories about the tens of thousands of miles of US commodity pipelines spontaneously combusting, exploding or otherwise blowing up and destroying the pristine nature all around them.
Maybe not, but that's where the "unbiased" media comes into play. The same media which we doubt will have much if anything to say about the train derailment, crash and subsequent massive explosion which took place at 1:20 pm in a rural area where the Galena River meets the Mississippi.
The train in question? One of Warren Buffett's own: a BNSF Railway freight train loaded with crude oil.
BNSF said the train has 105 cars, 103 of which were carrying crude oil. The other two cars were buffer cars loaded with sand. A release from the Jo Daviess County Sheriff's Department confirmed it was Bakken crude oil.
“The report that came back to me from them is that eight tanker cars had left the track,” Galena City Administrator Mark Moran said. “Two of those were still upright. The other six were not. They observed at least one of those tankers smoking.”
Conley said firefighters had to access the derailment site via a city bike trail. He said two cars were smoking when they arrived on scene and they attempted to fight a small fire among the cars but were unable to stop the flames.
And since they couldn't reach the train, firefighters "had to pull back for safety reasons and were allowing the fire to burn itself out, Conley said. In addition to Galena firefighters, emergency and hazardous material responders from Iowa and Wisconsin were at the scene."
A press release from the Jo Daviess County Sheriff's Department sent just after 6 p.m. said the sheriff's department was in the process of evacuating homes within one mile of the derailment site.
This derailment, and resultant fireball, takes place just two weeks after another train hauling crude oil derailed and exploded in West Virginia on February 17, displacing up to 1,000 residents and contaminating the local water supply.
Ironically, one can't blame Buffett for not being honest about the threat that flaming trains post: it was exactly a year ago when he told CNBC that “It’s fair to say that we’ve found in [the] last year or so that it’s more dangerous to move certain types of crude than was thought previously. There’s no question about it."
There sure isn't.
And just to help the president with his next veto decision, which we hope will be to ban all oil transit via far more dangerous rail lines, here are some photos of today's explosion:
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Ecology demands high speed oil freight rail
I hope he had better insurance than GEICO
Wouldn't need it if it had been on the John Galt Line!
POS Warren "Thanks For The 17 Billion, Sucker Taxpayers" Buffet, the self-posing, genteel grandfatherly type, who's really a Welfare King Scumbag -
- this wouldn't have happened if he didn't get Obama to kill oil by pipeline.
In a just world, Buffet would be stripped of his wealth, put in prison rags, and tried for approximately 121 felonies in federal court, then imprisoned for life in a fuck-me-in-the-ass prison.
ah-hum, that fireball resembles a skull with two "spots" on "forehead", ah-hummmmmmmm.
Does this mean all my Geico insurance rates go up, car, house, life insurance etc?
The Orifice of Omaha has a pretty big carbon footprint.
;-)
He's a different kind of greenie.
I figured that the pipeline companies refused to pay Obama's bribe fee - now I know the real reason that he keeps vetoing it.
The bright side for Warren is he'll be able to use the write off to fund more abortions.
In for vandalism/terrorism claims.
Just punch a horse.
Choo Choo MF
Warren is original OG!...Oh so reminiscent of old railway interests (not 'can't let go' but more 'why would i ?')
Plus now he rolls with the new pimps.... Roc-A-Fella!!
http://theothermystery.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/beyonce-in-illuminati.html
http://diaryofahollywoodstreetking.com/did-jay-z-and-beyonce-name-warren...
According to various reports:
LOL
Well the pipeline is wrong as well. The Tar Sands are a crime against the world ( and that means more than humans). Too move that crap via pipeline is folly.
If an idiot was going to harvest this garbage then at least keep the processing close to home. Why does Canada need to ship this raw material via pipeline and tanker?
I know I know Pick me Pick me.....object is to destroy nature and line pockets.
They want to ship this crap via pipeline through mountains of BC and across watersheds with no back up plan. Through wilderness areas. Then put it onto tankers running through some of the most pristine but also treacherous waters in the world,
Meanwhile Harper has just announced the closing of 3 Coast Guard monitoring stations in BC, makes sense to me. Shut down the response centres, RAM the pipeline project through the review process...and let us all just hold our breath and wait for the next EXXON Valdez. Hey who gives a care that the Kermode bear lives on the route. Spirit Bears pay no kick backs, Hey Stevie boy?
But I digress.
WackoWarner sez:
Well the pipeline is wrong as well. The Tar Sands are a crime against...
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They aren't "tar sands", they are oil sands, and they help the U.S. to be energy self-sufficient. More supply = lower energy costs: Basic econ.
This Greenie carp is getting old and busted. Drill baby drill! And I don't give a flyin' fart what no enviro-wacko thinks. I'm tired of sending money to the A-rabs. They hate us anyway. &likewise me them...
Troll
Ah. Another enviro-wacko gets smoked out!
'Greens' are about 7/8ths what's wrong with society. <--word up, my friend. Do-Gooderism is for busybodies.
The oil sands aren't US, they are Canadian and we don't need a pipeline in the US for them to sell their oil. The topic of this article is a burning train carrying Bakken Condensate which is US oil and highly volatile. The Keystone pipeline isn't for US oil and wouldn't change this situation. Bakken needs infrastructure which will not get built with these low prices. The Bakken needs pipelines to carry the oil to midwest refineries and until those are built, this will continue to happen unless the Bakken is shut down.
It is clear you don't understand even the basics.
A pipeline would have avoided this environmental disaster.
Best 'accident' for pumping up pump prices so far this year. Won't juice it anywhere near the best 'oil price spiker', other than lame stream news spews over the current state of some Forever War (Thanks FED!) hiccup, than the BP spill a couple of years back. Bay steps, Warren, baby steps!
Thank you Warren for renting this President and demonstrating the Atlas Shrugged railroad safety perspective.
Beyond your comment (which is true).
mr. Genius of Omaha is not such a genius. Almost any idiot with his portfolio since the 1980's could have generated his great returns, There was the never ending march of the DOW that made his pot so large, You would have needed to be a complete fool not to have made a go of it,
This old fart rode the tide, and now thinks he understands how to mold a surfboard.
My disgust is dripping off me.
Yes but he allegedly got to fuck hot CNBC bimbo hosts, which for a Viagra taking old fart is pretty damned impressive. I just wonder what flavor Blizzard he bought the bitches after the nightmarish experience of seeing his wrinkled old ass on top of them.
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I'll bet Mexican food has caused worse 'accidents' in Charlie Munger's diaper.
It's probably insured for more than the current value, wink wink.
Meh ~ That was like Billy Ray Valentine [Capricorn] playin' HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS with the Ming vase...
Train derailment oil fires are safer for the environment than oil pipeline fires........pay no attention to the fact that the train burns a lot of oil product itself to get the oil to the place where it fireballs upon derailment.
Sincerely,
Your choice of dumbass treehugger politician/lunatic
So the tree huggers are going to be the next terrorists when trains start derailing?
Thank god, I thought it was ISIS, CIA, Mussad. Or that kid in Bostons distant cousin.
Well maybe DHS might prove themselves and finally catch some terrorists instead of harrassing airline passengers.
We should demand the Obama administration tax & print moar in order to "fast track" federal subsidies for a high speed bullet train for this crony endeavor!
Its just the right thing to do!
A 200mph fireball?!?! Fucking eh, I would pay to see that shyt. Where do I sign?
*yawn* ... 28.5k bbl spilled on rail routes... whoopty do... but it's Mother Jones and big numbers are oh so scary, so we show it in gallons...
and, this isn't even close to the worst spill in recent memory when it comes to rail transport... Graniteville, for starters, which didn't involve a single drop of oil, Bakken or otherwise...
this is all misdirection anyway, the real "killer" of Keystone XL is the price of oil itself... even if they allowed for the pipeline, it wouldn't get built because current oil prices don't justify it... this is all theatre, nothing worth getting blood pressure up about
1 Death is a Tragedy. 1 Million deaths is a statistic.
Yep ! We need no stinkin' Keystone pipeline, 'cause our uncle Warren wants his profits...
Ecology demands high speed oil freight rail
In the winter fuel oil cartage is serviced by rail. It may have something to do with temperature and viscosity - someone in the oil patch explained it to me back whenever - duh .. but I forgot the precise reasoning.
Does not Warren also own a bunch of rail systems. Rehypothocation through insurance claims is a great idea - did anyone see warren loading up the trunk of his Capris with sledge hammers and pick axes last weekend and wearing a cool pinstriped rail road engineer outfit and hat? Warren "Casey Jones" Buffet .. making the world a better place (for hisself)!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/oil-bust-threatens-cmbs-in-wall-street-funded-shale-towns
One begins to suspect that this all will unravel badly,
The role of Atlas in Ayn Rand's latest movie adaptation will be played by Michael J. Fox.
Maglev
Thank goodness Oblunder didn't sign the Keystone pipeline bill.
I don't see a golf course nearby, so I don't think Obama gives a shit.
How many pipelines have exploded in the last 10 years compared to these rolling fireballs. Fucking asshole Obangotan.
"It also explains why after Buffett's purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) in 2009, Obama has been so staunchly against allowing the Keystone XL pipeline: because if there is anything that would allow Buffett to preserve the momentum of his soaring oil transit business, it is maintaining a veto on any competing pipelines. A veto which Obama implemented for the latest time just a few days ago."
But what about how much his secretary pays in income taxes dammit!? ;-)
BNSF vs. Keystone easily overcome by the size and scope of Kim Kardasian's ass, given the Pewblik Edewkayted Pewblikz, who will forget about it all in 36 hours.
Warren's Bathtub companion is simply populist tax fodder. Wake me when Bathsalts Warren's actions speak louder than his words.
owebomba would burn the whole fucking country down if buffett maggot told him to.
He will and he did.
Holy shit this is scary! Wait, what's that? Oh it was in Mississippi, nevermind.
Actually it is near the Wisconsin border in Illinois..........near the Mississippi River.
It looks like it is in the Mississippi River.
Rail On
Illinois you say?
Well, obviously some crazed Tea Party fanatic terrrrist-type monkeying around with the rails while making a political statement directly to The One and his adopted home state, a twofer!
If you see something, say something ;-)
River vs. State....Given our Pewblik Edewkayshun...geographiez iz notz our strong point.
Mama mia, that's a one espicy fireball!
Uncle Warren's Mississippi Bar-B-Que.
The all you can eat Asshole Buffett is the reason we don't have a damn pipeline in the mid-west!
Warren is a cunt. He is evil and dirty as all of them playing the nice grandpa role. He helped kill the pipeline just for his bottom line on the rails. And the rails have so many more accidents then pipe lines. Pipelines can travel where people are not. Rails not so much. He is evil and would not change my worst day for his best. Good luck you douchebag. And I could give a fuck about the pipeline. Such a fucking cherry coke douchebag.
+1 for using the cunt word
Most underused. Besides hatchet wound. As my great Scottish grandfather told me. If it wasn't for her cunt we would just throw rocks at her
Most underused. Besides hatchet wound. As my great Scottish grandfather told me. If it wasn't for her cunt we would just throw rocks at her
It offends females which, in this day and age of feminist horseshit, is OK by me. It pisses off those who have convinced themselves they are better than hookers.
Then again, there is a male in every female.
So is someone messing with Buffet or is Buffet messing with us?
Is the rash of derailing to force the pipeline by someone or is it to make an excuse for the taxpayer to rebuild rail lines for Buffet (for public safety)?
Jo Daviess County, ILLINOIS. The "Mississippi" reference is to the River, not the State.
Maybe, it matters now.
Nah.
Apparently, most of us slept through geography class.
Galena Illinois Home of US Grant
Russian retribution for Warren selling all his Exxon shares.
Buffet is too much in the news. Bad Karma. Maybe this is symbolic of what else he has coming, or what is coming to us all. Up in smoke.
Omaha Joe needs to meet his maker.
The buddhist (Tibetan) belief is that death is a transition and the Book of the dead foreshadows the confrontations a soul undergoes for 49 days or so before rebirth,,,,wait for it Buffet. One like me presumes you will come back as a cockroach (as that is your Karma) in Harlem (no offense) or East Vancouver, I volunteer to step on you. Then you do it again and again and again and again,
Worth the wallet you got buddy?
God I am in a bad mood when it comes to loving Warren baby.
Not so despondent Mr. Dead Man Walking. His karma is not your own, nor mine, And hopefully not nature's.
Edit: Maybe the article could state the location of the wreck
Did oil spike 2% in milliseconds when the algos saw oil/fire in headlines?
I really wish Warren would drop dead, but since all his organs are half as old as mine at least, he'll probably outlive me.
The best BBQ of all time would be Buffet, Soros, and a bunch of Rothschilds roasting on a giant spit.
I hope you bring the chocolate to our FEMA re-education camp. I already have the g-crackers and marshmallows
That's not crude oil. Too much fire and not enough smoke. Insurance scam with some flamable industrial waste if you ask me.
Is this like when the mob burns down a restaurant that has lost business?
Never let a flaming train wreck go to waste. I'm sure this is a reason to do something asinine on top of extreme and advantageous. No sense letting it burn when you can make it 100 times worse by putting it out.
Tired of slow shitty browsers - I googled 'ultra fast browser' and have been trying out the Avant Browser - it is quick!
Doesn't he own the company that is making railcar tankers, Union something or other, wholly owned private company? Haven't they been pushing for higher standards for building these little megaton delivery vehicles? So what, Warren loses a couple of tanker cars of oil....he gets massive DOT regulation of tanker cars and the next thing you know, he's making thousands of new tanker cars with moar 'safety' features..
Brilliant. The man is a damn genius!
I think he may have burned up 3 or 4 carbon credits there. What do you guys think?
A business even an idiot can run - or better not.
Please tell me Warren was on that train...
You sure those photos aren't from West Virginia?
Where is the footage? Is my video player broken? I only see photos here.
Charlie Munger was the locomotive engineer...All aboard the choo choo train...
It must have been hit by the US satellite that overheated in space last week.
Bakken crude contains a high percentage of dissolved propane and other light volatiles. It is more profitable not to strip out these light fractions at the extraction source
These light fractions naturally separate out during the movement and temperature fluctuations involved in rail shipment.. Railroad tank cars are not designed to adequately contain and transport these extremely flammable and extremely volatile fractions, and when they escape from the tank car they are easily and very explosively ignited by sparks that normally occur from the steel wheels of the rail cars along the tracks.
This is a very well known extreme hazard in all transport of Bakken crude, and is inherent in the physico-chemical properties of the product.
Railroad tank car explosions of trains carrying Bakken crude are well-known and hardly considered uncommon. This particular explosion is quite photogenic, and may attract more attention than other similar tank car explosions.
This problem aksi exists with pipeline transmission
Why not suck the volatiles out at the extraction source?
They could use the propane/propylene to heat the crude, and feed the process.
The crap is just going to offgas enroute anyway. Use it or lose it, but don't manufacture accidents in the name of efficiency.
Why not suck the volatiles out???
-simply because it costs less and is much faster to leave a lot of the dissolved highly flammable volatiles in; this is a purely economic decision.
purely a brainless economic decision - to be a bit more precise.
but then when accountants make the decision, you can't expect much intellligence to be in play.
when accountants ignorant of and untrained in the nuts-and-bolts hazard engineering of the petroleum industry make the decision, you can't expect much engineering knowledge or expertise to be in play.
And crony capitalist Buffet bribing off Obama is causing some more problems for farmers not getting their product on the market, higher U.S. power bills and transportation of goods in general:
Oil Clogging U.S. Railways Seen Limiting Exports of Grain http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-09-18/oil-clogging-u-s-rail-see...
Rail Jams Snarl Canada Grain Sales Even as Crop Shrinks http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-10-02/rail-jams-snarl-canada-gr...
Canada-U.S. Grain Sales Drop 35% as Trains Go East-West http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-13/canada-u-s-grain-sales...
Cheap Oil Jamming Rails Means Higher U.S. Power Bills http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-12-17/cheap-oil-jamming-rails-m...
Why fracking boom isn’t driving down Seattle gas prices http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2024377098_gaspricesxml....
Buffett Rail Car Shortage Has Toyota Parking SUVs http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-03/buffett-rail-car-short...
Who’s to Blame for the Exploding Oil Trains? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-26/who-s-to-blame-for-the...
Actually, that was no accident...it was just Buffet paying tribute to his great benefactor, Satan.
All of these folks deemed pure evil by ZH will be blamed by the rest of the world for wrecking the economy when the system finally fails. For now their job is to allow the system appear to be worth something. When it becomes obvious that most wealth was spent years ago the world will ask why they could not keep it going on for longer.
Only the prepared are wanting a change.
Storage full!
jewish Stocktake
This is about 3 miles from my house, quite the fire believe me.
Seriously, do you properly check and maintain your rail network in the first world USA !?
What about fixing your rail network instead of war-mongering the entire planet ?
Even in India they don't have a train that derail every two weeks geez...
Nope, and our bridges fall down regularly too. The motto we live by is: why fix it if it's not broke yet? [aside from the stuff we break on purpose, like Iraq, Libya, etc]
buffet suggests to the germans that they should keep greece from pissing on their carpet.
maybe he should hire the greeks to piss on his trains.
buffet why don't you mind your own biz.
it seems like you are out of control.
senile f*ck.
Uncle Warren will be PISSED!!!!
His private refrigerated rail car of Cherry Coke just went up in flames.
This reminds me of what happened to Daniel Plainview. The oilmen are just going to have to scream ....."I abandoned my boy" to get a pipeline.
Paging Al gore, al gore, al gore, your carbon credits are needed. . . al gore.. . must be snowed in somehwere.
That's it!!! I go commando all week!!!! No FOTL anymore.
I heard this was caused by the Allstate Mayhem guy, he was f'ing with the Geico Gecko and boom, took the train out!
MAYHEM!!
Odds of mainstream media telling the full story, as shown here? My bet it transforms into Warren eating an ice cream cone and a tangent into more funding needed for the Dept. of Environmental Studies and Safety and Stuff.
I find it amusing that most of the comments here shift what is a basic hazard problem to center on blaming and bashing Buffett, who is basically a financial guy investor who knows a great deal about money and investing, but absolutely nothing about petrochemistry or the hazards inherent in the industry. This situation is not at all parallel to many major of the US coal mining disasters where mine owners deliberately and wantonly flaunted safety procedures and regulations (even to the extent of paying off mine inspectors to turn the other way) for decades strictly to increase their profits. These Baaken crude shipping explosions are strictly a petrochemical industry hazard; only tangentially and marginally hazards of the financial industry.
It's not even remotely funny & done on purpose. Eco-Terrorism is in full bloom & the Op Tempo has picked up significantly. The masses are texting & watching the Tele thinking everything is still normal.
Sheeple, it's what's for dinner....
Uncle [Warren] !