thebigp wrote:
The Keystone pipeline, upon completion, would carry more than 800,000 barrels, or 33.6 million gallons, of oil through the pipeline per day.
With no harmful emissions.
A Barrel of Oil is 42 gallons, not to be confused with a Drum which is 55 gallons.
Because a gallon of oil weighs between 7.5 and 7.8 lbs. per gallon, most trucks can only carry about 130 barrels of oil at a time without violating the Department of Transportation laws of maximum 80,000 lbs. per load on US roadways. That's truck and cargo weight!
It would take 6,154 trucks going from Canada to the Gulf Coast to move that same oil and that's every single day.
Now a rail car holds approx. 30,000 gallons or 700 barrels.
It would take many trains, every day, pulling 1,143 more rail cars per day.
Each of these methods of transport, or a combination of these methods, would be required just to pull the same amount of oil daily that the Keystone XL pipeline would carry each day from that pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Trains and Trucks will emit substantially more emissions and burn substantially more fuel all of which would be eliminated by an operating Keystone XL pipeline.
So when they tell you this is about the environment, it is not; that would be a lie.
Just thought you should know.
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