Posted on 07/23/2014 6:21:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Obama administration will unveil new rules Wednesday proposing more stringent safety standards on trains carrying crude oil and other flammable fuels.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is expected to announced the new rules, which will include standards for tank cars, speed limits for trains carrying crude oil, brake standards and testing for oil and other flammable liquids, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
A Department of Transportation spokesperson confirmed to The Hill that the announcement will be made Wednesday.
The federal rules have been anxiously awaited by the railroad and oil industries, which have met with White House and Transportation Department officials multiple times over the last few months.
Concerns on Capitol Hill over crude-by-rail accidents have increased due to the growing number of derailments in the last year.
Shipments of oil on trains has surged in the last few years as a result of increased production in North Dakota's Bakken formation. Earlier this year the Transportation Department labeled Bakken crude oil as highly flammable and warned first responders to treat it with care during any accident.
Obama/EPA won't approve the KEYSTONE PIPELINE!
Just more war on non-liberal economy by Obama.
I see a pattern ...
Another shakedown of Soetoro crony Warren Buffett who owns the rail lines that oil is shipped on.
Be looking for Buffett's smarmy face to pop up on the national radar soon. Probably denouncing Global Warming or re-stating his support for tax increases.
Either that or the lines Buffett owns will be carved out an exemption in exchange for a sizeable donation to The DNC.
Another payoff to existing producers, particularly the Saudis.
oh ‘anxiously awaited’ no doubt.
Cause it takes the fed government to specify what you need in brakes for a train.
Them poor railroad operators are just so dumb, they clearly can’t figure it out for themselves.
And for heating homes no fireplaces or wood burning stoves. Looks like we are headed lower than most third Countries of the world. Break out the candles, no electricity.
“No oil by pipeline ... no oil by rail ... no fraccing for gas ... no coal ... no nukes ...
I see a pattern ...”
Ahhhh, does it match this:
http://blogs.worldwatch.org/sustainableprosperity/resources/clubfordegrowth/
Any exceptions written in for his buddy Warren Buffett?
Warren Buffet owns Union Tank Car Company. With oil pipelines blocked, he stands to make a killing from building new tank cars.
Any exceptions written in for his buddy Warren Buffett?
Buffett’s tank car company just happens to make cars that likely comply with these new *standards*. Nothing like knowing the new *regs* ahead of time, eh?
It’s uncanny how Buffett knew to invest in rail cars....at a time when the pipeline was being *considered* by 0. (Wink, wink.)
The Saudis who probably got him into Harvard Law, paid his tuition, room, and board while there, and made sure the "little matter" of his grades was "taken care of."
This is to fix the problem of all those oil tankers exploding and killing people on the rail lines
Remember those? Me neither
Oh wait... this is just to make oil more expensive then
You nailed it!
Every action of the Baraqqi Regime can be connected to crony capitalists.
“I see a pattern ... “
As you should. The grand design of socialism is human extinction. When you understand that, everything being done makes sense.
They offer pipe-dreams of shiny happy people with windmills and organic gardens ... they offer the reality of miserable dirty sick people living in mud huts.
Interesting. Yesterday I suggested human extinction as the end-game of islamism.
“The grand design of socialism is human extinction.”
“Interesting. Yesterday I suggested human extinction as the end-game of islamism.”
It is not hard to see a common objective, if you think there is a devil as the source of pure evil behind those equally destructive ideologies.
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