Posted by Bret4207 on March 09, 2015 at 04:31:38 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: oil train update posted by Indiana Ken on March 08, 2015 at 19:55:33:
Indiana Ken said: (quoted from post at 23:55:33 03/08/15) It really doesn't matter what the trains are hauling. One would never get away with simply saying more airplanes crash because more airplanes are flying. If the airline industry had this many accidents the fleet would be grounded until they had root cause and corrective action in place.
If the oil industry cannot ship their product safely by rail why should someone believe they know how to ship it safely by pipeline?
The airline industry is heavily subsidized by the gov't with taxpayer dollars and tax breaks. The freight rail industry isn't from what I understand. That makes an enormous difference. But in the end, the rail industry is trying to move product at the least possible cost and max profit. Nothing wrong with that at all, it's how you stay in business. But the infrastructure has decayed to the point they are having these derailments and fires. The Feds won't help the railroads, so the railroads cut and cut and cut and here you are. All the gov't does to the RR's is tax and regulate them.
If the RR's were "too big to fail" we'd probably see an entirely different rail system in place. That being said, IMO the answer isn't in gov't handouts, but in getting a tax structure in place that allows growth while bettering the infrastructure.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 04:34:01 03/09/15.
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