Posted on 03/28/2013 1:31:53 PM PDT by NoLibZone
An apparent result of Obama’s hold on the Keystone XL pipeline, which has forced oil to be transported from Canada by rail:
A mile-long train hauling oil from Canada derailed, spilling 30,000 gallons of crude in western Minnesota on Wednesday, as debate rages over the environmental risks of transporting tar sands across the border. …
There has been a rapid increase in rail transport of crude in the last three years as booming North American oil production has outgrown existing pipeline capacity.
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They want bad things to happen so they have crises to not let go to waste.
There has been a rapid increase in rail transport of crude in the last three years as booming North American oil production has outgrown existing pipeline capacity.
[sarcasm] Mass transportation ought to be good enough for the workers and peasants. As long as we enlightened people have given them the revolution, what more could the ingrates want? [/sarcasm]
It's OK just so long as Warren Buffet gets the rail business. < /sarc>
Obamanation Counterculture File.
That depends. I know Buffett holds stock in BNSF; does he have a stake in Canadian Pacific?
There are BNSF oil trains running along the Mississippi in southwest Wisconsin. They have ALL tank cars except 1 boxcar on the end. I suppose that’s for a bumper.
You’re probably right about the boxcar serving as a bumper. I remember reading a book on railroad operations (it dealt primarily with simulating operations on a model railroad) which touched on a few FRA regulations. One of them regarded tank cars; FRA regs required tank cars to be at least five cars behind the locomotive and five cars ahead of the caboose (the latter these days is somewhat superfluous now that none of the Class 1’s use cabooses anymore), or centered in the consist in a short train.
Read a story today that said rail transport >3X spills of pipelines.
Which seems like a very expected performance given the physics of both.
Baraq: build Keystone! Do it “for the children”
This?
or this?
The Canadians have 14,000 rail tank cars on order, which at 500 barrels per carload will give them the capability to ship 7 million barrels of bitumen. Of course, the cars will be empty for the return trip, so there will never be more than 3.5 million barrels of bitumen (70 unit trains full) on the rails at any one time.
But the Canadians placed their orders after US orders for tank cars created a 15 to 18 month backlog, so it will be 2014 before the Canadian tar sands trains really get rolling.
In the words of BTO, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.
Trust me. They're still really p***ed about that whole rising-incomes-allowing-car-ownership thing got out of the bag. That'll never happen again.
That first pic is clearly a few years old! SP was assimilated by the Borg (UP) in the mid or late ‘90s as I recall.
Oil production had outgrown pipeline capacity up here in ND and Eastern Montana by roughly 2002, when the Elm Coulee Field was being developed (Bakken), and hasn’t really caught up since. Bakken drilling in North Dakota really got going about 2006, and will continue for a while yet, so the dearth of capacity will continue for a while.
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