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[quote user="n012944"] [quote user="Bucyrus"] [quote user="n012944"] [quote user="Bucyrus"]I would say that this Quebec derailment is exactly the pivotal event that I was predicting.  It is amazing that it only took two days to materialize.[/quote]I would say you are trying too hard to predict doom.  Ethanol trains have derailed with some explosive results, and yet ethanol trains still roll along.   So, why will there be such an outcry about oil trains, but not ethanol?[/quote] It is because ethanol is considered to be carbon neutral and petroleum is not. Ethanol is the darling of people who hate fossil fuels.  <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote]Your grasping at straws to prove your guess. <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] Well my prediction was not that an oil train would derail.  Of course one will eventually derail.  But what I am predicting is the public reaction after the derailment on the part of those who are opposed to importing Canadian oil into the U.S.  Those opponents are just now catching up with the news that rail is doing an end run around the pipeline that they killed.  And they are not amused.  They are hard at work making the case that rail is even more dangerous than the pipeline.  They deal in symbolism with the aim of influencing public opinion, and they have just been handed the best possible symbol on a silver platter.  So my prediction is that they will use this wreck to try to throw a monkey wrench into the suddenly booming transport of oil by rail.  They will work the public, and the public will work the regulators.  It will be interesting to hear what our Administration has to say about this.   This was certainly not a difficult prediction to make, so I don't think I need to "grasp at straws," as you say, in order to defend it.  However, when I predicted a reaction to the first train wreck, I was not expecting one so spectacularly useful to the greens, and so soon.  That part kind of surprises me.
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