While the Canada incident was tragic, and an example of how dangerous shipping hazardous materials is, in the U.S., deregulation has made things far more dangerous. The same applies to all those “nice safe” pipelines for oil and natural gas. The TV lady doesn’t mention the line explosions in Texas and elsewhere that have quite regularly killed people. Sshhhh, fossil fuels (that includes natural gas AND coal) are safe and clean.
FYI – []I live in Texas.[]The town where I live is cut in half north/south by a BNSF line (formerly a Santa Fe line).[]In the 20+ years I’ve been here, we’ve not had a single derailment.
Tell your tykes to run with scissors, reduce your costs for higher education. Regulations don’t have to ban “scissors” to just make using them safer, but if it costs a penny out of a dollar in profit, most American “energy” corporations (any idea how many chemicals we use that are based as well on petroleum?) will fight, or skirt, those regulations.
As you guys know, I am french canadian and I can assure you that Radio-Canada’s camera have been focussed non-stop on Lac Mégantic for the last eight days. For that reason, few quebeckers have even heard about the Zimmerman case.
Look, I understand that oil is everywhere from detergent, to cast, to plastics, to the cosmetics on our faces but someone has to explain me, one of those days, why the heck you have to turn off your engine at a gas station to put in five bucks of unleaded while a train carrying hundreds of tons of crude can have its engine running all night while nobody is in it!
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
While the Canada incident was tragic, and an example of how dangerous shipping hazardous materials is, in the U.S., deregulation has made things far more dangerous. The same applies to all those “nice safe” pipelines for oil and natural gas. The TV lady doesn’t mention the line explosions in Texas and elsewhere that have quite regularly killed people. Sshhhh, fossil fuels (that includes natural gas AND coal) are safe and clean.
Ironhold almost 11 years ago
FYI – []I live in Texas.[]The town where I live is cut in half north/south by a BNSF line (formerly a Santa Fe line).[]In the 20+ years I’ve been here, we’ve not had a single derailment.
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
Tell your tykes to run with scissors, reduce your costs for higher education. Regulations don’t have to ban “scissors” to just make using them safer, but if it costs a penny out of a dollar in profit, most American “energy” corporations (any idea how many chemicals we use that are based as well on petroleum?) will fight, or skirt, those regulations.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member almost 11 years ago
As you guys know, I am french canadian and I can assure you that Radio-Canada’s camera have been focussed non-stop on Lac Mégantic for the last eight days. For that reason, few quebeckers have even heard about the Zimmerman case.
Look, I understand that oil is everywhere from detergent, to cast, to plastics, to the cosmetics on our faces but someone has to explain me, one of those days, why the heck you have to turn off your engine at a gas station to put in five bucks of unleaded while a train carrying hundreds of tons of crude can have its engine running all night while nobody is in it!