So, this is one of the reasons building an oil pipeline would be good, right? I mean, yeah, eventually we need to stop using oil entirely, but while we still ARE using it, why not make the transporting of it more safe?

@1 Sure, because pipes never leak. And since they don't leak, we don't have to care that the average pipeline leak spills three times as much oil as a rail spill.

So how then are we to transport the oil that we use? Hmmm? Pipelines? Tankers? Which one?

@7 Are you getting paid 90 Dollars hourly writing your drivel here?

@1 Urgutha Forka: You're also forgetting about aquifers and our sources of ground water, which would become poisoned by pipelines.
@9 seatackled: Forget the comments made by @6 and @7--they're trolling.

Meanwhile, our police, fire, and emergency response teams do not have the sufficient means to stop the catastrophic damages from oil train derailments-- damages estimated in millions that could do so much better when funded to rebuild our infrastructure, and assist in public health and safety.
Washington State cannot afford to become the next Mosier, Oregon, or Lac Megantic, Quebec!
The fossil fuel industry and its insatiable glut for profits should NOT come ahead of everyone and everything else.

Big Oil and Coal lobbyist-turned Trump Campaign Manager, Doug "Free Lunch" Ericksen. R-Ferndale, must be publicly renounced from his position as Senator, for corruption and pandering to special interests ahead of State Legislature.

Actually, the comment @6 is valid... what IS the safest way to transport oil? Granted neither trains nor pipelines are 100% safe, but which is better? Or is there another solution for transporting oil?

Do any of you know that the computer that you're using to post and view SLOG has lots of petroleum products in it.

HOORAY FOR OIL. WE ALL NEED OIL.

The railroads are backwards in their operations and management. They're being run by people who could give a rip about the actual operations and are shortchanging maintenance, and trying to wring every last dollar out of it to meet their earning projections. The only thing they understand is commodity shipping, and they are rapidly losing their old standby, coal. They're hoping that oil will take its place, but their infrastructure is so old that they can't really handle it safely.

@13, 14: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque