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California lawmaker calls for oil train restrictions on mountain passes
The environmentalists clearly don’t want oil in California. I think they should be accommodated by moving all the refineries to Nevada and shutting down all oil production in California.
if the Feather River and Dunsmuir are treacherous mountain passes then Donner Pass and catch me must be downright devastating. The Feather River is the only 1% past in California all the rest of the passes or 2.2 percent or greater. Not being able to move oil on any passes in California even Beaumont pass would be restricted under these rules so oil could not get into California by either coming down from Washington coming from Nevada or coming from Arizona the only way to get oil into California would be bring it in bring it in by ocean and hey let’s not forget the Valdese in Alaska so bring the oil in my ocean would be environmentally devastating as well. Some of these politicians are out of touch with how transportation works.
Why pollute Nevada? Build the refineries in China and ship the oil straight from Vancouver or Prince Rupert and import the refined products back in? With their air quality, they won’t notice the added pollution.
Let’em go pure electric. I can use some of the oil to feed my 2500HD Chevy pickup
Just curious, but is this not a similar problem ( restricting types of rail traffic) that has been attempted in areas of high population in the Eastern part of the country? The States are not able to restrict Interstate Commerce under Federal Statutes?
This sounds like a Local Politician searching for a way to get his name in play, and get coverage in the media?
That would require building more power plants, preferably nuclear - fired. The enviro extremists would be crapping cinder blocks.
American business needs to go Galt and just serve up California what it is asking for.
And the they would forbid any method of transport that uses petroleum products–and wonder why income from the state gasoline tax has fallen to zero.
This might require a court case, but unless I’m reading it incorrectly…a very real possibility…, California can not restrict interstate commerce without violating the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The guy is an iqnoramous. Under interstate commerce law he doesn’t have a leg
to stand on. What a fool!
Do any of you seriously think that Senator Hill gives a rat’s rear end about what the Constitution says? To people like him, the Constitution is important only because it serves as an impediment to their agenda. The people, the country, and our founding documents be damned.
I usually have no issues with moving oil via rail but am concerned about moving it through the feather river canyon. Just a week or so ago UP had a derailment there and about a dozen grain cars derailed and spilled grain all over the place, one of the cars had its side or bottom torn open by the wheel sets. If this had been an oil train derailing it would have been a major disaster. The feather river is one of the rivers that feeds major water supplies for the state. Some people have forgotten about the time Southern Pacific lost a load of herbicide into the Sacramento river near Dunsmuir. People in California have every right to be concerned about this issue. Interstate commerce laws do not say railroads have the right to run what ever they want where ever they want without regard to public safety.
Nice reference. “Atlas Shrugged” is never, ever, ever read in schools. And it should be. When my roommate gave me a copy in college, he said, “Read this, and you will never read The New York Times the same way again.” He was right. It’s huge, but it’s an easy read because you can put it down and know just where you were when you pick it up. But you will also try to read it in one sitting (impossible) because you want to know what’s going to happen next. This is one book that “progressives” would burn if they could, because it is a compelling story as well as a make-you-think, easily-adoptable epistemology. The way they killed it instead is to have thousands of like-minded teachers pronounce it “not literature” and dispatch it to an unread heap.
The railroads must demonstrate to the public that oil can be shipped by rail safely. Spills in the passes pose a real threat to the state’s water supply, and thus ot it’s entire economy. If that’s NIMBYism, sobeit
I just wonder where this ASS Hat thinks his magic GO GO Juice comes from. What surprises me is that most people have no idea what we carry on the Railroad had how dangerous it is, and we do it every day safely.
Hey, y’all, railroads have these folks called “Track Inspectors.” As long as the Railroads make an honest effort to keep tracks safe, the oil trains can move okay. If I may compare apples to oranges for a moment: How many airline cargo flights are made in perfect safety every day? Same thing with the railroads: How many trainloads of oil move safely every day? Does anybody think the UP, BNSF, etc. are going to deliberately run unsafe trains after the incident in 2013 in Canada? I think not.
He has absolutely NO right interfering with the flow of interstate commerce. This is most likely a move aimed at stroking and appeasing the environmentalist and to help with his re-election.
Typical panic button response from a state legislator, essentially bottom of the barrel in terms of intelligence. Since ND oil has to cross a minimum of 2 passes and mostly 3 on certain routes, this was a total nonstarter.