The U.S. is the most fully developed petroleum transport nation – we have crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel and jet fuel in transit 24/7/365 – mostly in pipelines. Lives lost are rare and environmental damage while awful at leak locations is a tiny amount of the total product moved.
The horrible truth, and one might pray for the souls lost last month in Quebec, is train transport is far more dangerous. The Quebec train disaster killed at least 38 people, and counting. No pipeline failure has ever come close to this level of human death and suffering.
Even more dangerous is truck transport. It’s a bit amazing there aren’t more big stories, but trucks carry comparatively small loads compared to trains, and are involved at some point in almost all the gallons delivered to consumers. The personal injuries from truck accidents are more diffuse than trains, but add up to more accumulated injuries and deaths. Truck + petroleum products and injury or death accidents are fairly common.
These three transport modes carry almost all the fuels we use. Spilling a three thousand gallon semi-trailer of fuel is quite a problem, spilling a row of tank cars with petroleum capacities ranging from about twenty thousand to over sixty thousand gallons is a different problem.
The U.S. is the most fully developed petroleum transport nation – we have crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel and jet fuel in transit 24/7/365 – mostly in pipelines. Lives lost are rare and environmental damage while awful at leak locations is a tiny amount of the total product moved.The horrible truth, and one might pray for the souls lost last month in Quebec, is train transport is far more dangerous. The Quebec train disaster killed at least 38 people, and counting. No pipeline failure has ever come close to this level of human death and suffering.Even more dangerous is truck transport. It’s a bit amazing there aren’t more big stories, but trucks carry comparatively small loads compared to trains, and are involved at some point in almost all the gallons delivered to consumers. The personal injuries from truck accidents are more diffuse than trains, but add up to more accumulated injuries and deaths. Truck + petroleum products and injury or death accidents are fairly common.These three transport modes carry almost all the fuels we use. Spilling a three thousand gallon semi-trailer of fuel is quite a problem, spilling a row of tank cars with petroleum capacities ranging from about twenty thousand to over sixty thousand gallons is a different problem.
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