Isn't fertilizer made from crude oil?
( Iwonder how much that farmer will be compensated? I wonder how much that field would pay him other wise in the next few years?)
Odd thing...I've never seen any oil tankers(ships) in Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, Nashville, Amarillo, Lubbock, Flagstaff, or Denver.
Why is that?.
oh..that's right...no oceans nearby.
The pipelines take the crude oil TO the refineries. Most of which are on the Gulf Coast..where it is refined. THEN it is transported other places.
There is no ocean tanker OR pipeline...they serve different purposes.
it's pipeline OR railroad OR truck
and pipelines are the safest of the three.
If you don't have oil to power our civilization..what will happen then?
im not saying get rid of it. im saying transporting it in a pipeline is harmful because it can leak millions of gallons before it is even noticed. and no fertilizer isnt made from crude oil slag that is transported in pipelines. also the farmer wont get compensated enough for the loss of decades of income from spill. at best he will be paid todays price for land and have to sell thus giving up decades of future profit to support his family with. if it were in the ocean it can be cleaned as if never happened unlike on land. there is green energy systems that can power the world if people would just accept them. but no, most people consider them an eye sore so they deny them.
oh and transporting by trucks means if there is a leak or spill it is far less of a spill than any pipeline AND it is noticed immediately. also none of the oil in said pipeline is even being used in USA. it gets sent overseas.
transporting by truck means it goes thru cities and town..
putting people at risk.
of course it's going over seas...
how many trucks (and trains) do you suspect it would take to replace pipelines?
do you REALLY want to have that many more trucks on the highway?
because the RailRoads are at MAX capacity right now.
like I said above.
it's not a choice of pipeline OR ocean tanker.
it's a choice of pipeline, railroad or truck.
and...yes fertilizer IS made from petroleum.
and YES..the farmer WILL be compensated
and dirt is easier to clean than the ocean...simple really...scoop it all up...burn it...the spread it back down....buy why?
crude oil does no lasting damage...
we will have to agree to disagree :)
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it's a long one..