You posted this picture in response to a factual statement by True Federalist. If you disagree with his assertion that pipelines are the most ecologically sound way to move oil, prove it. This picture is certainly not proof. Train crashes happen. Truck accidents definitely happen. Pipelines are the best way to move oil and gas. If oil and gas is extracted from the earth, we need pipelines to move it.
I don't care what the "most ecologically sound" method of moving oil is, frankly. As UncleSam aptly put it earlier in this thread, oil pipelines being the safest method of transport is the same as saying that hypodermic needles are the safest way to take heroin.
But moreover, imagine casually defending the relative safety of pipelines in a thread dedicated to discussing a specific pipeline
that has already spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the ecosystem.Of course, the real goal is to stop oil and gas production
Agreed.
and going after pipelines is just an assbackwards way of going about it. Invent technologies that make oil and gas obsolete if that is your true goal. Of course that is much harder to do than standing in front of a pipeline construction site and screaming your lungs out.
You can do both, you know. I've invested what little I can into green-energy research, and also donated some supplies to the Standing Rock community during the midst of the assault on their reservation in late 2016.
