Last time I studied this (admittedly in the 70s), pipelines were much safer than rail or road. This was in SoCal so I'm pretty sure geological instability was a consideration.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of > Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 8:02 PM > To: 'Curt Raymond' <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; 'Mercedes Discussion List' > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Greg Fiorentino <greg.fiorent...@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] The sky is falling! > > I don't have comparative statistics (not so easy to find unbiased info), but my > impression is that rail shipments go through populated areas and have killed > many people. One incident I read about in Quebec killed 47. The stuff I read > about pipelines is that they pollute when there are leaks, and that the leaks > are fewer, but spill more oil. My bias goes to saving more lives. > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of > Curt Raymond via Mercedes > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 2:13 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Curt Raymond > Subject: Re: [MBZ] The sky is falling! > > Depends on how you define dangerous. Pipelines leak and spill oil, one of the > big concerns the Keystone folks tried to ignore in Nebraska was sensitive > ecosystems. They claimed their poop don't stink... > -Curt > > > > From: Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Greg Fiorentino <greg.fiorent...@comcast.net> > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 5:09 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] The sky is falling! > > The important thing is that rail transport of petroleum is dangerous. Look at > the number of disasters this has caused. Pipeline is much safer. The oil will be > moved somehow. > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of > Kaleb C. > Striplin via Mercedes > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 11:11 AM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Kaleb C. Striplin > Subject: Re: [MBZ] The sky is falling! > > Which by some strange coincidence Obama does not want it. Hmmmm > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:50 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > His company owns the railroads that are transporting the oil, last > > thing > he wants is more pipelines unless he buys/owns a (Keystone) pipeline > company. > > > > --R > > > >> On 12/18/15 1:16 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: > >> As to the export of crude, my thought is Warren Buffet is buying into > >> an > oil company and/or a pipeline company and maybe we need the Keystone > project after all. > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
