An apparent result of Obama’s hold on the Keystone XL pipeline, which has forced oil to be transported from Canada by rail:

A mile-long train hauling oil from Canada derailed, spilling 30,000 gallons of crude in western Minnesota on Wednesday, as debate rages over the environmental risks of transporting tar sands across the border. …

There has been a rapid increase in rail transport of crude in the last three years as booming North American oil production has outgrown existing pipeline capacity.

Too bad no one is permitted to increase that capacity, because as transportation consultant Jim Hall notes,

“Railroads travel through population centers. The safest form of transport for this type of product is a pipeline.”

However, the federal government has blocked the Keystone XL pipeline to please environmentalists — and possibly also because Obama crony Warren Buffett is making a fortune transporting oil by rail. But at least Democrats mean well — or so they tell us.

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