[mountainlion]

Railroads have been making fortunes carrying North Dakota crude oil from the Bakken field at an average of $17 a barrel of crude oil...

No wonder there are so many pipelines.

[skeeter]

No one rides Amtrack anyway, so whats the problem?

[Iron Munro]

Idiot leftoids will ride petroleum powered transportation to the rally against petroleum.

[RoadGumby]

ALL energy producing companies outside of CA should cease supplying them, entirely and immediately. Open the breakers, cut them off. Let them have their ‘pristine’ paradise, without any energy not produced in state. No gasoline, no oil, no electricity. CA environment is just as important as AZ, NV, and any other.

[RoadGumby]

ALL energy producing companies outside of CA should cease supplying them, entirely and immediately. Open the breakers, cut them off. Let them have their ‘pristine’ paradise, without any energy not produced in state. No gasoline, no oil, no electricity. CA environment is just as important as AZ, NV, and any other.

[Moonman62]

The key beneficiary of this bonanza has been Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Corporation that purchased the Burlington Northern Railway (BNI) in 2009.

Now we know why Democrats oppose Keystone.

[Sherman Logan]

With oil fracking increasing America’s domestic production by 60% in the last three years

Now, there's a truly astonishing stat! And entirely the work of private enterprise, indeed intentionally hampered by government regulation.

Incentivized by the massive potential profits.

Even greater profits are out there for someone who develops a truly clean way to burn coal. Would be quite surprised if considerable resources aren't being devoted to finding one.

[Pecos]

If I were king, I would prohibit all oil imports to California until they emptied the oil reserves off their own coasts.

[okie01]

Worth noting:

Before the "refinery row" complex between Salt Lake City and Ogden was built, all Utah-produced oil was shipped by the trainload to San Francisco Bay area refineries for processing.

[glorgau]

Sooner or later one of these trains is going to come rolling downhill from the Sierras without a full set of brakes. That will be interesting to see.

[cicero2k]

But a with horrible safety record, a political battle will heat up in California over oil trains.

I stopped reading after this.

"horrible" is activist hyperbole.

Then only show a photo of a disaster. Nice.

Let's have a discussion about public transportation, starting with derailment photos.

These trains would not cross the Sierras, but come through Oregon, past Lake Shasta. They had a chemical train derailment on this route.

But short of a pipeline, and 38 million people that need to travel, what are the alternatives?

[factoryrat]

I've seen an uptick in the number of carloads of crude that pas through the rail yard that I work at, and I don't see that going away anytime soon. There's more refineries on the west coast than people think, and no pipelines headed that way. And BTW, I don't play on buffet's toy train set, and consider him to be competition to be crushed.

[datura]

We get one of the trains daily here in Anacortes WA. The environuts are too worried about the coal trains to notice..

[faithhopecharity]

How to get the Left to all applaud and support these oil trains to the Phillips (nee: Union Oil) Santa Maria Refinery.......

Phillips need only declare that its Santa Maria Refinery is not going to make automobile lubricants, airplane lubricants, truck lubricants, diesel, or gasoline.

Instead, the refinery will now make sexual lubricants.

You’ll see Nancy Pelosi, Barry Obama, and Sandra Fluke all picketing Phillips to get the trains rolling faster!

Problem solved.

(anyone have any other problems they want fixed?)