Ashotep Posted April 9, 2013 Author #26 Share Posted April 9, 2013 And we're doing that, but until that technology is fully online, what do we do in the interim? Try to consume as little oil as possible. Walk when you can, don't do any unnecessary driving, carpool, don't buy gas guzzlers, ride a bike, ride a horse, keep the thermostat turned down in winter, up in summer, put up heavy curtains, insulate your house, in other words conserve where you can. There may not be any one single solution but we need to be weaned off oil.We have enough pipelines running everywhere. They need to prove they can maintain these before we add more. North American Pipelines Map 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted April 11, 2013 Author #27 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Looks like the oil spill was larger than first told. Arkansas ExxonMobil oil spill even worse than thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted April 12, 2013 #28 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Looks like the oil spill was larger than first told. It seems that every major spill ends up being much LARGER than they first "thought" or "estimated" ... it's a PR thing to break the bad news in increments? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted April 17, 2013 #29 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Try to consume as little oil as possible. Walk when you can, don't do any unnecessary driving, carpool, don't buy gas guzzlers, ride a bike, ride a horse, keep the thermostat turned down in winter, up in summer, put up heavy curtains, insulate your house, in other words conserve where you can. There may not be any one single solution but we need to be weaned off oil. We have enough pipelines running everywhere. They need to prove they can maintain these before we add more. North American Pipelines Map It's my opinion that most folks are doing all of those things - well, except for the horse part. We're much more energy efficient than we were only a decade ago. And as I said above, pipelines are BY FAR the safest form of transport for any liquid material. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted April 18, 2013 Author #30 Share Posted April 18, 2013 If they were in good shape yes they probably would be safer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babe Ruth Posted April 18, 2013 #31 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I agree that pipelines probably are the safest mode of transporting oil and such, but Hilander's point about their condition is spot on. My guess is that pipelines are just like the rest of our aging infrastructure--in very poor shape. Whether there should be more inspections, or more money spent on maintenance and time spent on regulation should be determined. How practical is it to repair them? I think much more effort should be put into maintenance of infrastructure, pipelines included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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