Posted on 08/10/2022 10:54:28 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Someone with a sharp mind and the capacity to do a lot of research spent time putting some numbers together:
1 Train has 100 cars, 2 engines and weighs 27,240,000 LBS
1 Train carries 3,000,000 gallons of oil.
1 train uses 55.5 gallons of diesel per mile.
It takes 119,000 gallons of diesel to go 2150 miles from Hardidsy, AB to Freeport, TX.
Keystone pipeline was to deliver 34,860,000 gallons of oil per day.
It would take 12 trains and 1,428,000 gallons of diesel to deliver that amount. PER DAY!
521,220,000 gallons of diesel per year.
The oil will still go to market with or without the pipeline.
By stopping the pipeline billions of gallons of diesel will be wasted and pollute needlessly.
Does that make you feel good?
Stop the Tar Sands all together? Then we must ship the oil from the overseas sandbox.
1 large oil tanker can haul 120,000,000 gallons of oil
1 boat takes 15 days to float across the Atlantic.
1 boat uses 63,000 gallons of fuel PER DAY, that is about 1 million gallons of the most polluting type fuel in the world PER TRIP.*(See below)
Or take 3.5 days of Keystone Pipeline to move the same amount of oil with a fraction of the pollution.
In international waters ship emissions remains one of the least regulated parts of our global transportation system.
The fuel used in ships is waste oil, basically what is left over after the crude oil refining process.
It is the same as asphalt and is so thick that when cold it can be walked upon.
It's the cheapest and most polluting fuel available and the world's 90,000 ships chew through an astonishing 7.29 million barrels of it each day, or more than 84% of all exported oil production from Saudi Arabia.
Shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world.
There are 760 million cars in the world today emitting approx 78,599 tons of Sulfur Oxides (SOx) ANNUALLY.
The world's 90,000 vessels burn approx 370 million tons of fuel per year emitting 20 million tons of Sulfur Oxides.
That equates to 260 times MORE Sulfur Oxides being emitted by ships than the WORLDS ENTIRE CAR FLEET.
One large ship alone can generate approx. 5,200 tons of sulfur oxide pollution in a year, meaning that 15 of the largest ships now emit as much SOx as the worlds 760 million cars
Eliminate all gas consuming cars and diesel vehicles?
Worldwide car gas consumption is 403,583,712,000 gallons a year. That's Billion.
Worldwide oil consumption is 1,500,000,000,000 gallons a year. That's Trillion.
It takes 2.15 gallons of oil to make 1 gallon of gasoline/petrol, and 0.6 gal of diesel.
So it takes 867,704,980,800 gallons of oil to run the worlds cars, most diesel vehicles for a year and some ships
That leaves 632,295,019,200 gallons of oil for other uses.
👉 Someone's been thinking about this . . .
Passenger vehicles are only a very small percentage of the problem. If emissions are the problem why not just capture them at the exhaust? Create an industry to clean exhaust instead of crushing an entire industry and building a complete untested, replacement industry?
So are we willing to dramatically increase mining to get all the minerals necessary to make all these batteries and electric motors? Mining is far worse for the environment than oil extraction.
Killing Keystone was glibly decided by EMOTIONAL IDIOTS WITHOUT BRAINS!
DESTRUCTIVE idiots who are fooling America to boost their standing with Foreign paymasters.
Live oil is measured in barrels, not gallons.
Please stop confusing the DEMOCRAT narrative with FACTS and MATH. According to Democrats, both are only understandable to those with White Privilege which is racist and demeaning to their RETARTED Base of voters.
You should be ashamed of using Facts & Math as a weapon !!!!
Factors of safety, terrorist attacks and politics must be included in the equation.
Here is where I disagree. The, “how could people be so stupid”, rant is a cover. These leftists know exactly what they’re doing.
Raw Barrel = 42 Gallons
Refined Barrel = 55 Gallons
You know what, transport companies had this figured out years and years ago as to what was the most efficient way to ship goods.
Don’t be so technical — the world cannot distinguish between Arab Heavy and Virgin Olive oil.
Greenies are NUTS !!!
I’m surprised the lefties haven’t figured out a auto train for long distant travel.
But they are not about solutions..they just want to shut everything off and put everyone in lockdown.
Do they still run that from the NYC area to Florida? Haven’t heard anything lately.
Yep.
But it’s Va to Fl.
Thanks, will share.
What if we build a giant rail gun in the Middle East to launch the oil to other continents on a ballistic trajectory, and then slow it down with a parachute?
Which argues against trains as those can be easily sabotaged — killing the crews. Pipelines auto shutoff if pressure drops, leaving only a large puddle to clean up, not bodies.
Train operators were big campaign donors to BeijingBiden and all Democrats.
And RINO’s probably, too.
Some new ships and older ships also are being converted to LNG. When the first ships were built to carry LNG from Indonesia to Japan, the fuel they used was LNG. My memory is hazy on this (40 years ago) but as I recall some LNG is evaporated during the voyage, the ship designers developed a system to capture that evaporated LNG and use it in the ship’s boilers.
In general the author’s conclusions are correct, oil used as bunker fuel is not LNG!
Warren Buffet and his company own a lot of shares in railroads.
Ping
Sp, they did a conversion to make it more understandable to more people who can visualize a gallon but not a barrel of raw oil.
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