Shit happens but,
1 Train has 100 cars, 2 engines and weighs 27,240,000 LBS.
1 Train carries 3,000,000 gallons of oil.
1 train uses 55.5 gallons of diesel fuel per mile.
It takes 119,000 gallons of diesel to go 2150 miles from Hardisty, AB to Freeport, TX.
The Keystone pipeline was to deliver 34,860,000 gallons of oil per day.
It would take 12 trains and an additional 1,428,000 gallons of diesel fuel to deliver that amount. PER DAY!
521,220,000 gallons of diesel per year.
The oil will still get to market with or without the pipeline. By stopping the pipeline, billions of gallons of diesel will be wasted and pollute needlessly.
Does that make you feel good?
1 large oil tanker can haul 120,000,000 gallons of oil
1 boat takes 15 days to float across the Atlantic.
1 boat uses 63,000 gallons of fuel PER DAY, that is about 1 million gallons of the most polluting type fuel in the world PER TRIP.
Or take 3.5 days for Keystone Pipeline to move the same amount of oil with a fraction of the pollution.
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/d...ften-but-pipelines-spill-bigger-9533009d4aba/
1 Train has 100 cars, 2 engines and weighs 27,240,000 LBS.
1 Train carries 3,000,000 gallons of oil.
1 train uses 55.5 gallons of diesel fuel per mile.
It takes 119,000 gallons of diesel to go 2150 miles from Hardisty, AB to Freeport, TX.
The Keystone pipeline was to deliver 34,860,000 gallons of oil per day.
It would take 12 trains and an additional 1,428,000 gallons of diesel fuel to deliver that amount. PER DAY!
521,220,000 gallons of diesel per year.
The oil will still get to market with or without the pipeline. By stopping the pipeline, billions of gallons of diesel will be wasted and pollute needlessly.
Does that make you feel good?
1 large oil tanker can haul 120,000,000 gallons of oil
1 boat takes 15 days to float across the Atlantic.
1 boat uses 63,000 gallons of fuel PER DAY, that is about 1 million gallons of the most polluting type fuel in the world PER TRIP.
Or take 3.5 days for Keystone Pipeline to move the same amount of oil with a fraction of the pollution.
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/d...ften-but-pipelines-spill-bigger-9533009d4aba/