Buffet Blows Up North Dakota

So another exploding oil train has done just that on a Buffet railway line in North Dakota.  It’s not his first train to blow sky high in North Dakota, but this time a town has been evacuated.

Don’t worry about your Berkshire stock.  Buffet owns the Insurance Company that will make things right.  And yes, it’s true that President Obama says “no” to new pipeline construction that would solve this exploding problem.  But the President doesn’t even know where North Dakota is, and of course he needs Saudi billions to keep his hegemony afloat.  Saudis hate U.S.  oil.  No pipelines please.

Raitt And Foxx: Lawyers Run The Railways

Government lawyers in Canada and the U.S. are trying hard to deal with exploding oil tanker trains.  They are beefing up the tankers and fixing the brakes.  The lawyers could not possibly know the truth.  It’s the hundred year old rail beds and bridges, built by my generation, that are giving out.  The ancient rail beds simply cannot take the excessive weight and train frequency.

Better brakes will tear the rails up faster.  In Canada we have at least one highly qualified Engineer sitting as an MP in Parliament.  His voice is sadly muzzled for lack of the realization that he understands technical problems.  Our Government lawyers don’t know that they don’t know.  The explosions continue.  Which city will be first to pay the price?

Canada's North: Up In Smoke

The same Americans who have been raping U.S. coal mining states for fifty years say “no” to safe pipelines.  But at least our ancient generation built sturdy U.S. rail-beds to handle the haulage of the billions of tons of coal day in and day out.

In Canada, Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt is a lawyer.  Nobody has told her that our Canadian rail-beds cannot handle the punishment of thousands of hefty exploding oil trains, and there is nobody left to rebuild Canadian rail trackage.

So trains derail, trains explode and Canada burns.

But there is good news:  Railway Buffet is making a fortune shipping oil by rail, and Americans are never allowed to see the devastation caused by mining the coal needed to make up for their abhorrence of pipelines.  NIMBY lives and CANADA BURNS.

Exploding Trains

The gigantic rail disaster that wiped out the village of Lac Megantic in the Province of Quebec happened a year ago.  I wondered how long it would take before I again saw a hundred exploding rail cars all strung together rolling down the rails.  Now I have my answer.  I counted a hundred trundling through downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba yesterday.

Oh, I know Winnipeg is not unique.  I keep track of exploding train derailments.  Too many to count and several recently in Canadian cities.  Locals who live or work beside the tracks just yawn.  It’s only news if one goes boom.  I don’t know why I worry.  I don’t live beside the tracks.

Burnaby Burning?

I get a kick out of the lady Premier of British Columbia.  She loves highly explosive liquid natural gas (LNG) that will likely blow the city of Kitimat off the map in future years.

She hates tar sands tar that will hardly burn let alone explode.  Tar becomes a problem after it is thinned with propane, but even then I would guess it’s safer than natural gas when shipped by pipeline.

The lady Premier has a thing about tar/oil pipelines, so hundreds of explosive fuel trains are now careening up and down the dangerous three and a half percent grade mountain slopes in B.C. every day.  Brake failures are inevitable.

Consider the number of B.C. towns and cities situated in steep valleys beside rail lines.  How many will pay the price for this story of unlimited greed and stupidity?  It’s almost humorous to realize that a recent Burnaby B.C. derailment dumped coal in a puddle.  What if that had been propane-laced tar?  Half of Burnaby could be burning today.  Don’t hold your breath.

Bakken Burns - The Suicide Trains

So now we’re told that authorities have “discovered” that Bakken oil is more flammable than heavy oil.  Earlier we were told that the Bakken Formation produced light crude oil.

So we can all agree that light crude burns better than heavy crude.  That is not a lie, but then it has nothing to do with the recent string of massive railway tank car explosions.  It’s a thinly veiled deception to calm the maddening crowd.  The truth is that oil burns but it does not explode.  So why not tell us what has caused these rail cars to become rolling bombs?

You have to understand that hundreds of thousands of huge tanker rail cars are now trundling through towns and cities all across North America.  This is new and these rail tankers don’t just carry oil.  One hundred car tanker trains are piling up like derailed match sticks and exploding like roman candles all across North America.  I call them suicide trains.

Bakken crude is more flammable?  Who gives a s**t?  Warren and his Wall Street Railway buddies will stand by and watch a suicide train blow up the heart of a major city, all for the worship of money.

Will Warren apologize then?  Nope – he will blame the disaster on terrorists and the sad thing is that you will buy his story.  9/11 all over again.

Yes, light oil is more flammable than heavy oil.  Spin always wins.  You always lose.

Love Warren or freeze in the dark.