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Originally Posted by Gas Man
Pipelines are the way to go. I'm in that industry and our issue of failure is far less than other methods of transportation. However, that being said, even we are into rail transportation due to the bakken boom in the Dakotas and lack of pipeline out of that area.
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The primary issue with rail transport seems to be that there's no real standard for the rail cars used. We've got multi-hulled tankers, redundant shells on pipelines, but no standards for rail car safety? Duh. Pipelines tend to go across open country. Rail lines frequently run right the hell through the centre of major cities.