The OP misses the point (deliberately I think), this is not about profit. This is about safety. You're comparing apples and oranges. The oil will, and is getting here, but environmental safety has always been the chosen concern. Well, trucks and trains (some owned by Warren Buffet) have more accidents and spillage than does any pipeline. The pipeline is safer and always has been. Maybe this is about unionized trucking jobs...or unionized rail jobs...then the debate has been about the wrong subject. While the environmental alarmists are filling our TVs the real push has been for good old money and getting it into what the left considers the right hands.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Alarmists? Really? I totally agree this is about profit. Either for the oil companies, the pipeline operators or the transportation industry (unionized jobs or not, it really makes no difference, but at least you managed to slip that one in).
I'd like to see some stats about how much safer it is to use the pipeline than to use other modes of transport for the oil. Have any?
Also, enough already with the environmental shit, man. It seems as though living in a cleaner, safer world is a BAD thing for some of you and your pals, JD. You prefer poisoned water, land and air? Do you have all the clean water you need to support your future and the generations to come?
Maybe the Administration drained the lakes in Texas to get back at Perry for being such a dick. Or maybe it's God's will. But the debate over the environment, climate change, etc., is bullshit. It's like debating 2+2.