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Massive Fire Rages After Another Buffett-Owned Oiltrain Derails In North Dakota, Town Evacuated
Exactly two months after the latest Warren Buffett-owned BNSF train derailed near the spot where the Galena river meets the Mississippi, resulting in a huge fire and the evacuation of all homes in a one mile radius, moments ago another of Buffett's BNSF oil trains derailed, this time near the town of Heimdal, North Dakota, resulting in the same outcome.
According to the Bismark Tribune, the town in Wells County was evacuated Tuesday morning after a train full of oil tanker cars derailed and burned about a mile and half east of here.
Wells County Emergency Manager Tammy Roehrich said the BNSF Railway oil tanker train derailed around 7:30 a.m., setting six oil tanker cars on fire.
Roehrich said she couldn’t get close enough to the train to see whether it was exploding or just burning. No injuries were reported, she said.
“It looks a lot like Casselton,” she said, referring to the fiery train wreck of oil tankers near Casselton in late 2013.
As a reminder, in 2013 another oil train, also owned by Buffett's Burlington Northern, derailed and led to the evacuation of the town of Casselton, and people living in a 5 mile radius.
The 30 or so residents of Heimdal were evacuated in response to the derailment. All were staying with family or friends, Roehrich said.
Firefighters remained on the scene battling the blaze as of 9 a.m.
KFYR TV adds fire crews from Harvey, Fessenden and Maddock have all been called in to fight the fire. An official with Harvey Fire says at least 5 oil tanker cars are burning. A viewer who called reported seeing black smoke in the area.
Witness Jennifer Willis lives about a half mile from where the train derailed. She says she heard it happen this morning and it sounded like thunder.
Willis has been evacuated from her home. She tells Valley News Live the closest they've been allowed to the scene is an 1/8th of a mile and you could feel the heat.
Valley News Live has reached out to BNSF for comment. Stay with Valley News Live and ValleyNewsLive.com for more on this breaking story.
Ironically, this happens days if not hours after US federal regulators were forced to devise new rules for oil trains after 141 oil train derailments and fires in 2014. However, as RT reported earlier today, the regulations have sparked criticism from nearly all interested parties, including politicians and activists.
The trains in question are often called “bomb trains” because their black, torpedo-shaped tanks are filled with potentially explosive crude oil. They are an increasingly common sight on the nation’s rail systems as they carry a million barrels of oil per day to refineries along the East Coast.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) spent two years formulating the recently released new train rules. The regulations introduce new tank car standards for oil and ethanol, and mandate the use of electronically controlled brakes.
"The truth is that 99.9 percent of these shipments reach their destination safely," DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx said to the press. "The accidents involving crude and ethanol that have occurred, though, have shown us that 99.9 percent isn't enough. We have to strive for perfection."
And hours later we have this:
For those concerned that these countless and destructive BNSF derailments could lead to something, here is one photo which explains better than 1000 words ever could, why the outcome of all these pipelines trains exploding will lead to absolutely nothing.
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Gotta get rid of that inventory right?
They a say a picture is worth a thousand words. I say ony two. Crony Capitalism.
I have evidence the train engineer set the autopilot to 0 altitude several times on previous trips along this section of track.
Lol... You're a mess. ;->
Bakken oil has other specs than the train tankers would allow. Still Buffet wants to maximize his profits and take the risk to torch villages. Should be a crime.
Was the train double insured for a billion dollars?
"Pull it!"
Oligarchy in action
everything burns and the rich get richer
Atlas is rolling his shoulders.
All that's needed is for the Trains to SPEED UP so they can't spend as much time derailing.
""PROFIT PROFIT MOAR PROFIT""...
Just build the damn pipeline, and stop 'accidentally' wrecking trains to sway public opinion.
Buffet's trains sre being sui ided.
Yet another Lightning (TM) strike?
KFYR TV? K - Fire ? Really?
Speaking of profit his Wells Fargo Bank cash making machine was indicted in California for ripping off customers with fraudulent fees. Ohh the miracle of Oklahoma seems more and more like a thug each day.
Don't blame Oklahoma for that son of bitch, I believe he is referred to as the oracle of omaha but I just call him cunt.
Last year I watched 2 guys rob a Wells Fargo. Then I realized they were management. They got away.
Speed makes everything more efficient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI
I am begining to think that these are acts of sabotage and the retards in charge are not letting on, acts of terrorism are policy excluded coverage. But then again, the old coot owns the insurance company too. The problem with a corrupt government and a lap dog media is they can keep multiple plates in the air all spinning in different directions.
Sabotage? Does zero money for track mainentance count?
Buffett said yesterday that all illegal aliens should become shitizens. F him.
If you have any accounts with Wells Fargo - get out. It is Buffett shit company. F him.
He also said he wasn't really against a minimum wage increase but thinks they should raise the earned income tax credit instead. Some of his products are made in America, but many are not, so Berkshire wouldn't be that negatively impacted by a minimum wage hike which enables him to spout seemingly pro-worker rhetoric to keep his good ol' grandpa image.
On top of that, he wants to add more people with minimal skills (immigrants) to the pool of workers in the US, many of whom will be recipients of the earned income tax credit paid for buy the shrinking middle class. He really is a piece of work.
In Soviet USA billionaires & politicians can act as they please with impunity.
We could eliminate a lot of this destruction with a pipeline.
No kidding. Except the owner of the rail company is also a US crony capitalist, who influences gov't decisions by offering to "invest" in failed financial institutions like WFC and BAC. It's a bilateral agreement: Warren helps keep our insolvent banks liquid, Obama vetos any pipeline bill.
And main street burns. lmao
In the Obama administration that sort of comment is about as welcome as the neighbor's dog humping your leg.
It's been a while, a couple shots of Crown and I wouldn't mind some of that action.
Here ya go Doc.
http://imgur.com/gallery/5NXQKf4
NDP won a majority in Alberta yesterday, one platform...no Keystone XL.
almost right but not quite......they are YES to the pipeline but NO to what's to be shipped inside it. NO to raw bitumen,
refine in Alberta, keep the jobs here where they belong seeing as its our oil and YES to shipping the refined oil in the
Keystone.
NIce sometimes to keep the facts straight, otherwise the Bankers exploit the mistruths and semi truths to their advantage
"Rachel Notley said she would not lobby for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to link Alberta’s oil deposits to refineries in Texas, and that she is against the Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast.
http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/albertas-oil-patch-faces-new-era-of-uncertainty-after-ndps-shock-victory?__lsa=1780-ed1c
So is that really "one platform" or just a pet peeve of yours? The NDP 'platform' also has a lot of incentives for small businesses; you know, the kind the disappearing middle class own.
Good for Albertians,
"Society is like a stew: if you don't stir it up every once in awhile a layer of scum rises to the top."-Edward Abbey
44 years of deficit spending 'conservatives' have that province way too deep in hock considering the record high oil prices during most of their tenure.
Apparently hell can freeze over, and quite literally too (check the capital's weather right now hahahahaha!)
"As Albertans know: the weather is what it is, but spring is here." R.Notley
That said, the new gov't is being handed one giant shit sandwich, but at least now everyone is going to have to take a bite.
My pet peeve is the constant clamouring for moar pipelines.
If there is a winner here, its Richard Kinder and Transmountain.
Not to mention CNR and CP! Though you wouldn't know it now that the manic fearmongering by Ontario media magnates is entering full swing.
The 36" Sandpiper from Stanley to Clearbrook is kicking off as we speak. Another Enbridge.
Enbridge...most negligent pipeline operator ever.
"1984, knockin on your (the) door. Will you let it come? Will you let it run your life?" - Randy California
I suppose 'Bob' won't be quite so angry a flower anymore.
the financial post is a conservative party propaganda outlet, they can say whatever bullshit they want but those words I typed are from seeing them come out her mouth in english, not even paraphrased. Sometimes seeing is believing. The NDP are in a world of hurt as the PC media outlets will be relentless in the bullshit they will spout during her tenure
Well. the NDP just won the provincial riding that in part comprises Harpers federal riding. Who's hurtin now?
MBB
Par for the course
“It was almost impossible to get an objective statement of our policy or even an adequate description of any piece of legislation printed in the daily press. We would hand the press a statement and either it would not be printed at all or it would be run in such a distorted form that it looks almost meaningless and would appear among the classified ads, while the criticism of the legislature would be plainly visible on the front page with a two-inch headline.”
“The newspapers said we were going to socialize everything, that the government would own the farms, the corner store, the barber-shop, and the beauty parlor, and that everybody would be working for the state. When that didn’t happen, they had to give some explanation. So the explanation was that we had betrayed our principles, we were no longer socialists and we were now reactionaries, having departed from our original ideals. In effect, we were now traitors, because we didn’t do the horrible things they promised we would. They had built up a straw man and now they were knocking it down.” – T Douglas.
Fortunately, unlike most of the 20th century, these heady digital days folks have easy access to a virtually unlimited range of opinions and the means to verify them.
As a result it seems more and more Canadians, Albertans included, are beginning to recognize exactly who’s been buttering whose bread. We’ll see how far it goes.
I don't think the NDP are the second coming of Jose but at the very least it's tantamount to taking a sewer pipe that's been moving shit for 44 years and abandoning it for a new line. The shit will flow once again but at least the cronies are out in the cold for a while. Nice to see Albertans telling Prentice to go back to his fucking bank on Bay Street and suck balls somewhere else. The cronies are all out gnashing their teeth today, it's fun to watch them twist in the wind bemoaning the fact their tit is gone.
Agreed: We'll see.
buffet oil train derailed and town evacuated...we can just place those town folks in buffets trailer parks.
win win
FEMA trailers! Formaldehyde is standard equipment.
Bytchez!
I'm from the Goobermint and I'm here to Poison you.
I say throw his ass in it...
I've got tobacco to sell; poison, what poison?
Train fall down and go boom... I'm just thankful we aren't building any of those dangerous pipelines.....
when you have no where to put it, just accident it and collect the insurance.
I'm going to guess that Warren is also the insurer, given his proclivity for vertical integration.
Nah .... he insures with other suckers .... his companies won't underwrite stooooopididty
Yeah just dumping it in the ocean seems to piss people off. I like this way better. I'm sure the train and shipment were insured.
Lucky thing for him he's best buddies with the Criminal in Chief; so no worries.
there is supposed to be a great struggle going on between the two main factions of the cabal: rockefellers and rothschilds. one wants to transport the oil by train and the other wants the keystone pipeline. obama clearly falls on the rockefeller\buffet side. others in congress are owned by the rothschilds\keystone side. this looks a message from one to the other. but no hard feelings. as long as only useless eaters are killed in their wars, it's all good.
What a classic pair of pictures. Wow! Crazy man.
Oil's time is done. WE can't extract it safely or cheaply anymore, we cannot transport is safely or cheaply anymore and all wars are being fought over it.
There are answers out there...
My solving site: http://squareandc.net
" Chevron has been reorganizing the business unit, cutting 162 jobs. The company also has delayed a decision on building a new campus in the area. "
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2015/05/chevron-lists-mo...
I know a young chemical engineer graduating this month just hired by CVX.
Guess they'll pay her a pittance of what one of the 162 they're whacking was making.
They prolly have to train her to boot.
You need to go back through and once again proofread your website. Found a few instances of where you forgot to put spaces in between words.
Standard Disclaimer: For a small fee, I will proofread your website. Because a second pair of eyes is better than one.
Thanks Cheech, a re-vamp is already under-way here in India. Appreciate the offer.
For an even smaller fee, I will leave snarky comments daily that are sure to amuse your readers, like this:
"Gold, bitchez!"
Israel's answer
https://i1.wp.com/trendsupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ishot2kil...
I have grown to hate that guy
He makes hate easy.
Time marches on. Tick tock Warren.
Poor Warren, he can't figure out how to pay more taxes.
Paying for this cleanup might be a start.
If only. Rockefeller just had his sixth heart transplant at the age of 96.
Maybe Cheney was the donor, he has no use for one.
All were defective.
Harder to start a flood, eh?
Who is John Galt?
Sabotage?
Nice way to cover up a heist of a couple thousand gallons of Methylamine.
That train was breaking bad, before it was wrecking bad.
Hey guys, if you don't get at least 97% weight conversion your chemists are fucking you.
Lets see price popped and dropped so pop it again with a nice inventory fire.
Man servant: Sir you lost $4 B in the markets last week.
Buffet: how much insurance do we have on that crude shipment?
Man servant: I'll have them crash and burn it immediately Sir.
In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr, has gold teeth, and is the son of Nine Mothers. Heimdallr is attested as possessing foreknowledge, keen eyesight and hearing, is described as "the whitest of the gods", and keeps watch for the onset of Ragnarök while drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjörg, located where the burning rainbow bridge Bifröst meets heaven. Heimdallr is said to be the originator of social classes among humanity and once regained Freyja's treasured possession Brísingamen while doing battle in the shape of a seal with Loki. Heimdallr and Loki are foretold to kill one another during the events of Ragnarök. Heimdallr is additionally referred to as Rig, Hallinskiði, Gullintanni, and Vindlér or Vindhlér.
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Thanks for Heimdallr.
GREP luvs funky words even moar than Blue Horseshoe when digging old posts out of the memory hole...
(In this case- all sorts of spooks and kooks in the oil business)
Heimdall was also a cool little grey alien (Asgard) on Stargate SG-1.
No wonder they took to Christianity.
One guy nailed to a cross is much easier to remember.
Odin > YHWH
JHVH = DMCA + 0x1984d
-"described as "the whitest of the gods"
In the Thor movie he was the only 'person of color' on Aasgard.
So the movie lied?
Heimdall hears the grass grow and the wool grow on sheep, he can see as well day and night, he needs less sleep than a bird.
His main purpose is to be the defender of the gods.
At Ragnarök he and Loki fight and kill each other. The old version of the word Ragnarök is actually Ragnarökkr, the first part of the word, Ragna comes from the word Regin, which means gods. The second part, Rökkr has changed into Rökkur and means darkness. So Ragnarökkr means dark times for gods.
At Ragnarök Thor fights the worm of Midgard and kills it, but so much poison is spit on him that he only manages to walk 9 steps from the worm and then falls down dead.
Odinn fights the wolf Fenrir and Fenrir kills him. Then Víðarr comes and rips the head of the wolf. Víðarr gets very little attention in the sagas even though he is alomost as powerful as Thor. Possibly because the main characters in the sagas are Odinn, Thor and Loki. Those 3 have lots of interesting toys and special properties of many sort
The word Víðarr means wider, like something that has been expanded to cover large areas, Loki actually means valve in modern Icelandic. All kinds of problems flow from Loki, actually noting ever happens in Asgard unless Loki is involved.
If you take the word Þór (Thor) and knock the comma of the o it becomes Þor, which means courage, it is pronounced just like the English word Thor.
Óðinn derives from the word Óður, it is connected to poetry and music, like the English word Ode.
http://soopermexican.com/2015/05/05/the-attack-in-america-is-only-the-beginning-isis-announces-6-month-terror-campaign-names-5-targets/
We have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire. Out of the 71 trained soldiers 23 have signed up for missions like Sunday, We are increasing in number bithnillah. Of the 15 states, 5 we will name… Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan. The disbelievers who shot our brothers think that you killed someone untrained, nay, they gave you their bodies in plain view because we were watching.
May I suggest an extra mag or two on your person ... Anyone screaming "Allah" as they storm a public area aim for the face.
Does that list count the one in a particular residence in D.C.?
Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan
I noticed they left out Texas. Good call.
Is 71 not including the art critics that were killed in texas?
What? After 14 years of hyperfunding FBI provocateurs have only been able to recruit 71 feebleminded, utterly expendable patsies in 15 states? What they hell are we paying these people for? I could find that many in coffeeshops in my neighborhood in an afternoon. They aren't even trying, are they.
I tremble that they are as good as the earlier commandoes.
Let's get this straight. Either the "dead" actors in the false flag production purportedly went armed to a staged political event in order to murder unarmed civilians, or 2 extreme idiots actually took the bait and did this, actualizing the goals of the provos who staged this event? And now they are the victims? If I were Allah I'd be laughing for eternity. But then I'd be Buddha...
Electioneering has reached new lows, and its still a long way to the bottom.
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/05/texasattack-what-you-are-not-being-told.html
Bullish for steroids.
ISIS has been established by many to be nothing more than, like al Qaeda, a Langley and Glilot Junction construct--a new boogeyman to replace the old boogeyman.
So the whole thing, from Syria, to Garland, and now to this announcement is nothing but more FUDD and propaganda for the sheeple--"Be afraid, very afraid..."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Hi, I'm ISIS. Wanna play."
"bomb trains” because their black, torpedo-shaped tanks"
Can be seen in google earth xing the town location.
Track is straight as an arrow and flat. I see no reason for it to have derailed.
In Railroad terminology, a Torpedo is a 4" black gunpowder device placed on a rail to provide a small explosion - big sound - to alert the trainmen that there is a problem ahead on the tracks. Place a number of them close together and it is sufficient to blow a wheel off the rail - not good when the train is moving more than a few mph.
Another device is simply a mechanical ramp bolted onto the track which lifts a tank car wheel up and slightly to one side, providing an instant derail. Momentum does the rest.
Could be a wheel just had a fatigue failure. The metallurgy involved and finding cracks in the wheels before failure is an art.
They better stick to Northern VA. The rest of us tend to shoot back if not first...
I decree....ISIS supposed plans are for 5 states which crack down on the Citizens' right to provide for their own defense; i.e. gun control states. That sounds about right. Crazies aren't so crazy b/c they select "gun-free zones". And gun-free zones always advertise themselves as such.
Uh Oh, better call Geico.
Unnecessary. That'll buff right out.
Let me call upon my good friend Captain Obvious...
A pipeline has less moving parts.
Standard Disclaimer: Fuck Warren Buffet and the crony capitalist system that has allowed this leech to survive and grow fat on the life blood of others.
i hope buffett insures those himself
The Gov of North Dakota, if he really cared for the general welfare of his population, would issue an emergency decree outlawing train transport of oil through his state. If 99.99 percent get to market, the remaining part that doesn't will destroy lives and property needlessly. Use (or build) a pipeline - one that doesn't leak like those built in the 50s and 60s (and still in use today).
Don't you see the problem in ceding more property to corporations?...much of the Oil and Gas comes from land gifted to the railroads in the first place, and now you think they need more public lands to transport the resources they got free to begin with.
it's just old railsroads...
....that were gifted in the first place.
where is the left wing media to condemn the latest "environmental disaster"
oops i forgot (not really), trains good, pipelines bad, and warren is one of dem...
"warren is one of dem"
No, Warren is not one of them, he is an oligarch who owns those bitches. The media hangs on every word he says and they provide cover for him, but in his eyes they are nothing but bugs to be squashed if they get out of line.
Looks like Keynesian one-upsmanship on Broken Windows.
"Broken Windows" -- sounds like it should be the name of a song, band or movie.
Ah yes, Broken Windows - aka Blue Screen of Death, compliments of Microsloth Corp.
Sometimes even the monkey has a bad day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmYfjlr0GFA
Warren Buffet seems like a harmless old grandpa, but I'm not fooled.
One of these days Becky Quick is gonna disappear...The first place I'd check is Buffet's basement.
The frequency of train derailements and explosions is too weird.
I speculate that some sort of fluid wave motion resonance is generated in the tanks and leads to instability that finally throws a car off the tracks.
Do the tanks have baffles installed to damp wave moton in the tanks? Seems elementary that they should.
I don't think the tracks are good enough for the trains to go fast enough to setup significant sloshing.
It's just a matter of time before downtown Bismarck goes up. Nothing but a non-stop chain of those black tankers all over ND, MN and MT and the occasional farm or coal shipment they allow. It's very uncomfortable being stopped infront of those, maybe they should start handing out those smoke jumper fire blankets at the railroad crossings.
Another coincidence of Eco Terrorism from within... You would think by now people would put it together & get it by now...
To think that William Cohen said it in 1996' regarding Eco Terrorism EQ's, Volcanoes, Weather Manipultaion, Hurricanes etc. & the band plays on w/ not many putting it together still.
BUT no such luck yet. American Exceptionalism has produced idiots & a lot of smupid & smupidity. The American people have allowed libturds to steal their CULTURE.
The "Tyrant O Saurus Wrecks" & dictator in tow, is about to be found out me thinks soon....
The stoopid burns...
Bernie Sanders is out on the MSM today invoking Warren Buffet. Repeating warrens direct quote "I have a lower effective tax rate than my secretary. The tax system is absurd."
Warren can block the Keystone pipeline, but he can't get tax reform from his wholey owned POTUS who said in 2012 that the focus of his second term would be tax reform. But as of yesterday, O says he is going devote the rest of his presidency and the rest of his life to his 501c3 "My Brothers Keepper"
Here is a clue. get rid of the tax code, and the US will enter a golden age for every race, color, creed, Urban, Rural, Inner city.
His secretary pays income tax. He selectively draws no check, so capital gains tax is his rate. The masses don't know or get that, but when they hear tax the rich, then the progressive fervor ignites. Hook, line, and sinker.
Why does her secretary not have the same options in life? Because she wasn't born with warrens daddies rolodex (silver spoon) in her mouth? She is the one who actually uses it, to earn her income (taxed), and his income (cap gains) by literally calling all those congress critters who warrens daddy "knew", and then transfering the call to warrens office.
And if you think her secretary has it bad. The engineer and conductor on that train pay a higher effective rate than even she does. For the privledge of a very dangerous job that keeps most of them away from their homes and families for their entire lives.
Captiol gains indeed. They used to call it slavery ....
With all those words, one would think you could have made a point. It is such confusing drivel, each sentence would have to be addressed individually.
Have you ever read the tax code? I have, which explains many,many things ...
The statement i made is correct: she pays income tax, he doesnt. Your rant assumes I am pro insider accounting gimmics and blah blah blah. Yes blue collar workers work hard and pay too much taxes, such insight.
No I have better things to do than casually read tax code.
It is not a rant. He pays the capitol gains rate on his investments, which are largely created by crony capitalism. His asset was being the son of very politically collected congress person. She is the one who actually intiates the outbound and inbound communications (labor) from that Rolodex (asset). He reaps the benefits from that labor, on an asset he did not earn, and is allowed to chose his own tax bracket. Absurd. Borderline evil.
Let us put this another way. In a meretricious society, people should be rewarded for hard work. The rewards should be the ability to invest. But if your labor is taxed higher that those whose collect capitol gains, how will you ever have enough money to compete with them, to buy assets, to get the capitol gains tax rate?
It is not that hard to figure out how the top 0.1% own/control 90% of the wealth in this country. It is not hard to figure out why many people, including those inner city youth Barack wants to help, do not want to work a difficult job, only to pay a higher rate on WORK than the elites pay on LABORLESS capital gains. Certain cultures are very adverse to systems of slavery like this. I can not blame them.
Nothing to see here, right Warren?
http://www.banklawyersblog.com/.a/6a00d8341c652b53ef015391c79429970b-800wi
Does Buffet self-insure?
"...were forced to devise new rules for oil trains after 141 oil train derailments and fires in 2014." 141 ???????
Yes,yes,yes, i can say it again,
You stupid Americans !
I feel a bit ashamed this time, we are probably going to bailout Greece again.
No, not really. Whe have a pipeline to transport oil (for now).
"made in America" junk
Lol
And yet the protests against static, non-moving, much safer, pipelines continues.... probably funded by Buffett!
I've never understood the pipeline logic. You will build a pipeline over a thousand miles long just to refine the oil and ship it. Why not build a refinery in Canada where the oil pipeline will start? No sarc here. Kind of reminds me of our government giving the okay for companies selling chicken to ship the chickens to China, have them processed there, then shipped back to the U.S. to sell. When I think of a pipeline over 1000 miles long, I wonder how many "dead gallons" have to constantly be inside the pipeline to keep it pressurized. That seems to be a lot of overhead just to keep the oil flowing.
And ?
Transport the way more flamable and explosive stuff by railroad ?
You're not answering the question. Besides, you worry about "individual" flamable rail cars exploding? What happens when an explosion happens on a 1000-mile long pipeline?
lookup Refinery Gain
At a refinery there are two inputs (crude oil & "other") and one output (refined products), all three occupy the same general time and space.
Therefore they all must arrive and must depart (constantly), either by pipeline, railline, truckline, or boatline
That said Deluth, Minnesota, would be an ideal location to remove concentration risk along the Gulf Coast and moving products over land unnecessarily and at a higher cost than by sea.
Apparently E and W is broken on Canadian compasses
Now we know why Obama does not want the pipeline. He is protecting his buddy and money machine Buffett.
Someone get down to the Ben & Jerrys to get a statement from uncle B.
Warren Buffet makes money killing America. Full stop.
Breathe deep, the gathering plumes
Watch lights fade in every room
Moody Blues
Buffett must be running out of trains faster than the Fed is running out of collateral.
What they don't show in the bottom picture, and the reason ole Buffet has the smirk on his face, is that Barry is slipping him the ole trouser trout . . . .
Sure glad we protected the environment by insisting on trains over pipelines.
Good call.
Good Grief.
Ya know it's damn strange how this keeps happening to oil trains but not trains hauling other freight.
Environazi sabotage???
Buffet Satero RR . Nother rail for you Barry ?
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dill+to+kill+a+mockingbird&view=deta...
Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak, and the couplings strain.
Ten minutes behind at the Junction. Yes!
And we're twenty now to the bad—no less!
We must make it up on our flight to town.
Clatter and crash! That's the last train down,
Flashing by with a steamy trail.
Pile on the fuel! We must not fail.
At every mile we a minute must gain!
Who is in charge of the clattering train?
Some crusty old fuck. Likes Dilly bars.
and to think part of the quid pro quo was that damn medal of honor that gives that shyster special privilegs on military bases etc. What a shame that is. Bought and paid for with Buffett's dirty money.
"Shuda bot geico wij yuh money"......oh thats right, he already did.
At least coal doesn't explode when the cars jump the tracks.
So well known it hardly deserves mention:
Bakken crude contains a very high level
of potentially explosive dissolved volatiles
that inevitably come out of solution during
rail shipment..it is cheaper to leave these volatiles
in than to strip them out, so explosions
of this nature will absolutely and unquestionably
happen due to the physicochemical propeties
of the product being shipped...These tankcars
absolutely are not designed to handle this problem.