Time to ‘aggressively phase out’ old, unsafe tank cars carrying oil, says CN

Calgary Herald ^ | JANUARY 13, 2014 | BRUCE CHEADLE

[Paladin2]

Use more buffer cars.

[Olog-hai]

Hmm. A bone thrown to Carl Icahn? (He owns ACF.)

[thorvaldr]

Time to build a pipeline

[frithguild]

[WayneS]

Or, we could construct a safer alternative than rail transport - perhaps, oh, I don’t know, a pipeline?

[Resolute Conservative]

A transporter is their dream.

[VRWCarea51]

That will not make Warren Buffett very happy.

[Balding_Eagle]

I’ll wager that by the end of 2014, more people will be dead as a result of ObamaCare than have died from train crashes during the entire existence of the DOT 111 cars.

[DannyTN]

80,000 tanks * 100,000 (Cost of new) = $8,000,000,000.

$2 billion a year for 4 years. Ought to do it.

Then another $2 billion a year for 4 more years to replace the defective tanks we bought from China during the first 4 years, because we are too stupid to buy American.

[RinaseaofDs]

No pipeline is going to be built while Buffett is still alive and owning BNSF.

You think its an accident that Keystone wasn’t built?

[Vince Ferrer]

What’s the cost of this vs. a pipeline?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Warren Buffett owns Union Tank Car.

[FatherofFive]

I have a 65 year old hammer that still works.

[Mr. Lucky]

Mr. Buffet will be perfectly happy.

Tank cars, in North America, are privately owned; so when the railroad industry combines to prematurely retire the existing tank car fleet, they don't bear the direct cost. (Indirectly, they bear the cost of any inefficiency which might transfer a competitive advantage to a competing mode, but the railroad industry never really has come to grips with the fact that transportation is competitive).

[Dartman]

Five major derailments in Canada involving tank cars during the past 12 months. Build the pipeline.

[dennisw]

Obviously a pipeline is needed. Obvious to all except greenie imbeciles

[fwdude]

Whew!!! When they said "tank cars" I thought they meant like my 1970 Buick Estate Wagon.

It ain't phasing out anywhere.

[arthurus]

The rail cars are getting around the pipeline ban so the rail cars have to be banned also.

[arthurus]

Their dream is to further hamper the transportation of oil to the refiners.