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I never knew Americans were so interested in protecting Canadian profits and against American railroads.
Canadian tar sands -> Asia
Wait... what happened to our:
• Jobs (temp construction + only 35 permanent)
• Hometown discount
• Energy independence pipe-dream
• Oglalla Aquifer (not if but when spills & leaks occur)
Last edited by TrexDigit; 08-30-2014 at 01:08 PM..
Yep, why I was able to sell my piston twin plane and upgrade to twin turbine power. I know exactly where that loop is having driven many trains over it.
"Transporting crude oil by pipeline is generally cheaper than by rail, at a cost of about $5 a barrel compared with $10 to $15 a barrel, "
"Yet rail offers its own advantages, including speed. Transporting oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shale fields to the Gulf Coast can take five to seven days by rail, compared with about 40 days by pipeline."
"Costs to move oil by rail from Western Canada [tar sands] to the Gulf Coast range between $15 and $20 per barrel, compared to between $7 and $11 on a pipeline [ie Keystone], but companies that have their own significant rail infrastructure could cap their costs to $10 per barrel."
U.S. refineries produce about 19 gallons of motor gasoline from one barrel (42 gallons) of crude oil.
$5/barrel = 26 cents/gallon of motor gasoline.
$10/barrel = 52 cents/gallon of motor gasoline.
And a mile long train can derail spilling all that stuff all over the place.
Right. And we all know pipelines don't leak.
Maybe revisit Enbridge (843,444 gallons).
Or the fact Keystone leaked 12 times in its 1st year.
TransCanada claimed it would leak once in 7 years.
Oh... never mind. We wanna make sure a Canadian company is raking in profits from exports to Asia while operating on US soil over the Ogllala Aquifer.
Whatever. Keep shipping it by rail means big paychecks for me.
So then you started this thread for "lols"?
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