The back up of oil will require nearly every train to be above the limit for notification. If every freight train is flagged, what does a notification really mean, other than more expense meeting red tape.
Notification is fine, but notifying the feds and states doesn’t help as any incident will be handled by local responders who likely don’t have the capability to fight a tank train fire. It will take hours to days for state and federal responders to even get to some remote sites. That is part of the problem with the incidents that have already happened. Just think about having a derailment in the Sierra Nevada in late summer… the whole Tahoe Basin would be on fire before any agency equipped to fight that kind of fire could even be brought in to the area. One of the prime plans is to send trains of this stuff from Montana to the San Francisco Bay Area refineries. CalFire is good but used to fighting forest and wildland fires not oil fires.
Or stop pumping oil in North Dakota until they get a refinery built up there. Ever since they started pumping oil our gas prices have increased. $3.50 a gallon!!! Come on already. Experts predicted if we could pump oil at home and not depend on foreign imports we would be back into the $1.00 a gallon range. I’d rather pay $2.50 a gallon for foreign oil, then be grossly overcharged by some greedy person (company) that calls themselves an American!
The back up of oil will require nearly every train to be above the limit for notification. If every freight train is flagged, what does a notification really mean, other than more expense meeting red tape.
And Atlas shrugged. . .
Notification is fine, but notifying the feds and states doesn’t help as any incident will be handled by local responders who likely don’t have the capability to fight a tank train fire. It will take hours to days for state and federal responders to even get to some remote sites. That is part of the problem with the incidents that have already happened. Just think about having a derailment in the Sierra Nevada in late summer… the whole Tahoe Basin would be on fire before any agency equipped to fight that kind of fire could even be brought in to the area. One of the prime plans is to send trains of this stuff from Montana to the San Francisco Bay Area refineries. CalFire is good but used to fighting forest and wildland fires not oil fires.
Or stop pumping oil in North Dakota until they get a refinery built up there. Ever since they started pumping oil our gas prices have increased. $3.50 a gallon!!! Come on already. Experts predicted if we could pump oil at home and not depend on foreign imports we would be back into the $1.00 a gallon range. I’d rather pay $2.50 a gallon for foreign oil, then be grossly overcharged by some greedy person (company) that calls themselves an American!