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Posted by Broadway Lion on Sat Dec 20 07:42:14 2014, in response to Re: Frack sand traffic, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 19 21:53:43 2014. I do believe all of this, and yes oil affects traffic on both lines, but the southern line does not see any inter-modal in any event. BNSF runs its faster trains on the GN track, its slower trains on the NP track. Now with so much oil on the GN, that will slow that line down too.Cheap energy must come from somewhere, and that somewhere happens to be North Dakota. In addition to oil, we also have wind. We have some of the largest wind farms in the country, and are building more wind towers at as fast a rate as we can. The limiting factor there again is transportation, or in this case distribution. The national power grid does not make much of an appearance in North Dakota, so it is difficult to transmit power out of state. That too is changing. But again the limiting factor is not money. Some farmers simply do not want their cows standing ear the transmission lines. Maybe they are afraid that they will glow in the dark. If we need lower energy prices, why is Obama against every form of energy. He ran on an anti-coal and anti-oil platform, he still disallows exploration in federally controlled areas. He is against pipelines, and he has stated over and over that the price of fuels needed to go up. Cheep energy, like cheep fuels comes at a price. North Dakota can provide fuels and food if you have the money to buy them from us. ROAR |
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