By Rmuse
After their 2012 general election defeat, (click here) Republicans performed a self-autopsy and concluded that they had to convince the American people that they cared more about the “regular people” and not solely their special interest donors. Obviously they ignored their own diagnosis and have committed to serving the interests of their owners the Koch brothers. This week, despite a looming veto threat from President Obama, after House Republicans passed a bill subverting the President’s purview over a foreign nation’s pipeline and the Senate is following suit sometime this week. Of all the reasons to not build the Keystone pipeline, one that is often overlooked, and ignored by the corporate media, is the real and present danger of a break in TransCanada’s rupture-prone pipeline the company claims is safe and environmentally friendly....
That was last year, now there is another Koch pipeline explosion. These pipelines are dangerous and need to be closed and rebuilt, but, Koch won't spend the money, it is easier to keep the cash and let the people of the USA pay for THEIR negligence with environmental contamination and the climate crisis.
15 September 2016
By Platts
Americas Medium Range clean tanker freight rates (click here) on the US Gulf Coast-trans-Atlantic and USGC-Caribbean runs, have spiked 33% and 40%, respectively, since Monday after a leak on the Colonial Pipeline pushed barrels waterborne and charterers positioned to move light and middle distillates from USGC refinery terminals.
Colonial Pipeline's Line 1, the main artery pumping gasoline from the USGC to the USAC, had a leak in Alabama last Friday which closed the line. To avoid product building in the Gulf Coast, demand increased to move product to offsite storage locations as well as to mainly trans-Atlantic and Caribbean destinations.
According to S&P Global Platts Medium Range tanker data freight on the USGC-UK Continent run rose 33% from $9.29/mt this Monday to $12.39/mt Wednesday, while the USGC-Caribbean voyage rose 40% over the last two days from $6.58/mt to $9.21/mt.
Position lists rapidly tightened amid heavy fixing activity, as charterers were looking to find waterborne alternatives to moving USGC gasoline on the Colonial Pipeline for loading by September 20-21....
Everything was a lot safer before exports from the USA were permitted. Does the greed and disregard to life on Earth ever stop?
The US Congress never demanded the pipelines be rebuilt BEFORE the exports started. A Republican Congress is greed driven and incompetent to meet their corrupt promises.
