Posted by JD Seller on March 07, 2015 at 22:33:42 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Re: oil train update posted by RMinVa on March 07, 2015 at 21:31:40:
Most of the oil is refined around the Gulf. There are some refineries in the East but not many.
The Keystone pipe line would take a lot of oil off of railcars.
So while it directly will not carry the oil to where these trains are going it will reduce the stress on the rail infrastructure.
There where 9500 car loads of crude oil shipped by rail in 2007 and over 500,000 in 2014. I do not remember any rail lines being built during that time frame. So that has increased the traffic immensely on the existing rail beds.
As far as the oil lines and private property. The oil lines are better/safer than surface transportation. Just about everyone has some type of easement on their land of some type.
There is a large natural gas line just to the west of me. It was put in about 10-12 years ago. You can't tell where it crosses the fields now if it was not for the pumping lift stations.
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