Thursday, May 2, 2013

Thar She Blows - Again

The Pegasus Pipeline has ruptured again, this time along the Arkansas-Missouri state line.

ExxonMobil and Missouri officials are cleaning up an oil spill first reported Tuesday in Ripley County, Missouri. That's 200 miles north of Mayflower, Ark., where the same pipeline burst, spilling thousands of barrels worth of oil into the North Woods subdivision.

  KATV Arkansas
This happened because the pipeline was old and nobody gave a fk until very recently whether it might have the essential structural integrity of the average soda straw. This, studies have shown, is the case with a great number of pipelines all over this great land of ours, so when people tell you that the Keystone XL pipeline is nothing to be concerned about because "we already have thousands of pipelines criss-crossing this country," you can feel free to suggest that they explain it all to Arkansas and Missouri, both of which have enough oil on them at the moment to qualify as salads.

  Charlie Pierce
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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