Environmentalists and big government continue to make it more difficult to get approval to build pipelines, so Maria Cantwell is introducing stricter regulations on oil-by-rail tankers. Thanks?
There’s no other alternative really – America’s 94-year old Jones Act, a law loved by Democrats and unions makes moving oil by ship elaborately expensive. If you are moving U.S. produced oil to U.S. markets, rail is the only option short of some silly side-trip through the European refining industry.
Opposing Keystone only gave new life to oil-by-rail. The International Energy Agency predicts that North America will spend $2.5 trillion in oil infrastructure over the next 20 years. Keystone would have cost 0.3 percent of such spending. Most consider pipelines safer in transporting oil.
Polls showed the publics’ want of the pipeline; labor liked the jobs. The millions of barrels rumbling through America’s residential neighborhoods aboard mile-long trains are a result of impractical politics based upon Mr. Obama’s true policy. Oregon understands: They’ve approved $6.9 million to expand rail capacity to received Bakken crude from North Dakota and redistribute it on the Columbia River barges. All because some elected officials are not supporting pipelines for oil are we suffering this rail dilemma?
Where was Cantwell when 10 other pipeline projects across North America needed a hero?
Lisa Schmidt
Ridgefield
