The problem is they’re competing with other things that are being shipped by rail. Couple years ago, there were several dozen Union Pacific engines sitting idle outside of Missouri Valley, Iowa. Now there are none. Gas prices go higher, train traffic becomes more competitive.
You gotta know where those UP engines you’re missing are now? They’re pulling brand new tanker cars from the Kanadian Athabasca, hauling crude Kanadian to Loosiana for refining. You can thank Warren Buffett. He’s the guy who wanted the Keystone stopped so it wouldn’t compete with his tankers. One of the busiest businesses in the country in the past year is the tank car builders. And Warren thanks you for paying those higher gas prices.
I buy about a half ton of steel a month and those guys are the single biggest factor in my costs being up about 30% in the past year.
Blocking pipelines that transport oil - cheaper and safer - forces that oil to be shipped by ( large democrat donor $$ ) Warren Buffet’s RR - thus fewer engines, etc. available to haul corn, etc.