Posted by oldtanker on January 30, 2014 at 12:38:39 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: Enviormentalist posted by ss55 on January 30, 2014 at 11:56:22:
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ss55. I can bet that they will fight tooth and nail against MN because of the lakes, rivers and streams. That doesn't mean I don't agree with you but the nut jobs will fight it.
ND is/has built a new refinery that they started last year. There is also a refinery just south of the Twin Cities and one near Minot ND.
The problem is and will be getting oil to a refinery. Right now the best thing would be refineries in ND because they is little the Feds can do to block it. Once you built a pipe line across state lines it's interstate commerce and the feds business.
This is from a news article "All told, the government covers almost all of Amtrak’s capital costs as well as more than 10 percent of its operating costs". Now Amtrak has a few profitable routes mostly in the "northeast corridor". The rest are not profitable. Total budget last year was about 1.5 billion tax payer dollars. That was reduced by about 17 million because of the government shutdown. That means that one of two things are wrong. 1 they are not charging enough to cover operating expenses. The reason they would do that is that it's the only way to entice people into riding. 2. In an effort to get people to use their long distance they have artificially very low fees. Both add up to the same thing. Either shut parts of it down and make a profit without subsidies.
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