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Cuomo seeks immediate action on oil-train safety issues [Warren Buffett shakedown]
Gannett ^ | April 30, 2014 | Brian Tumulty

Posted on 05/01/2014 7:00:13 AM PDT by Fitzy_888

WASHINGTON — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged the White House Wednesday to give "immediate attention'' to safety issues involving the increased use of freight trains to transport crude oil.

He made his comments just hours before the latest derailment in Lynchburg, Va.

Cuomo later said the accident and other recent derailments are "a startling pattern that underscores the need for action."

"In addition to steps that states like New York are taking, the federal government must overhaul the safety regulations, starting with taking DOT-111 trains off the rails now," he said in a statement. "These trains travel through populated communities in upstate New York and we cannot wait for a tragic disaster in our state to act."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cuomo; energy; ny; oil; rail; warrenbuffett
Warren Buffett's crude oil trains compete with the (now) shelved Keystone pipeline.

It seems Warren Buffett isn't "spreading the wealth around" enough. Not enough for Andrew Cuomo in an election year, that's for sure. Hence Cuomo is nationalizing this issue.

This is a quintessential sleazy New York political shakedown.

1 posted on 05/01/2014 7:00:13 AM PDT by Fitzy_888
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To: Fitzy_888
Cuomo later said the accident and other recent derailments are "a startling pattern that underscores the need for action."

Duh..Tell your boss to build the pipeline.

2 posted on 05/01/2014 7:12:37 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Fitzy_888
These politicians are so ignorant it is almost impossible to believe. Pipelines are the safest but will still need transportation from exit pipeline to where oil is processed. Cuomo is an example of an idiot. All communists Democrats are idiots and all Democrats are communists.
3 posted on 05/01/2014 7:15:13 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Vinnie

Second that. Every pipeline that is built, is one less potential for a derailment and vast water/ground “pollution” with various forms of petroleum, either as crude or refined product.

Pipelines should be crisscrossing this country everywhere, including into the far northeast of the US, with emphasis on natural gas pipelines. Natural gas should be available at every residential and industrial development across the US, if only to provide a back-up in the event the electric grid fails. Natural-gas generators can provide on-the-spot power generation at very short notice.


4 posted on 05/01/2014 7:22:18 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: Fitzy_888
See, StatusCuomo needs the money to help his new Communist buddy DiBlasio, mayor of NYC. To finance a mandatory pre-K program for all five boroughs requires some big, big bucks. And DiBlasio found out early on that the leftist idiots that got him into office are not about to pony up any more money - paying for campaign promises are for somebody; anybody else.

Buffett apparently is a good target.

5 posted on 05/01/2014 7:25:57 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Fitzy_888
This chart can put things in perspective:


6 posted on 05/01/2014 7:26:22 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Vinnie

One day (Heaven forbid) an oil carrying train will derail in the wrong place and the resulting disaster will count the dead and injured in the hundreds.
The following day, the media NOT demand to know why the vastly safer pipeline was either built or at least begun.
They also may or may not fully cover the disaster.
When the pipeline is finally begun, the ENVIRONMENTAL radicals will lie in its path to prevent the desecration of the pristine countryside.


7 posted on 05/01/2014 7:34:53 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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To: Logical me
Pipelines are the safest but will still need transportation from exit pipeline to where oil is processed.

All refineries receive oil via pipelines directly. They also may have docks, train and truck unloading facilities, but all refineries are built with pipeline connections.

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8 posted on 05/01/2014 7:36:58 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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These trains travel through populated communities

Another rocket scientist democrat with an intuitive grasp of the obvious.


9 posted on 05/01/2014 7:37:17 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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Earth To The Son Of The Most Pious:”The ANSWER Is MORE PIPELINES”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 05/01/2014 7:38:04 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Logical me

I should not have said all refineries, but nearly all. Short pipelines are used to transfer from some refineries to docks, or even in-plant pipes.


11 posted on 05/01/2014 7:41:04 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Unless the Keystone XL pipeline is built, the railcars will keep moving crude, that is until the Canadians build the pipeline to BC, and cut off all shipments to the US. The chicoms have plenty of dollars that spend just as well as ours, and are much easier to do business with.


12 posted on 05/01/2014 8:00:38 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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Unless the Keystone XL pipeline is built, the railcars will keep moving crude, that is until the Canadians build the pipeline to BC, and cut off all shipments to the US. The chicoms have plenty of dollars that spend just as well as ours, and are much easier to do business with.

And then it will be blamed on...Bush.

13 posted on 05/01/2014 8:24:36 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Logical me
Cuomo’s not evil - he's just another elite democrat who was born on third and thinks he hit a triple.

In some ways Cuomo's an affirmative action baby.... His college filled the bottom half up with people who couldn't compete easily with the ‘rich kids who had it all handed to them’ so he grew up thinking he was special. Without affirmative action Cuomo would have been closer to the bottom... along with John Kerry and other ‘more money than brains’ types.

14 posted on 05/01/2014 11:09:26 AM PDT by GOPJ
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