Hey, a Midwest oil pipeline is on the fast-track to approval!

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No, not Keystone…
posted at 5:51 pm on July 19, 2013 by Erika Johnsen

While roving bands of eco-radicals expend their vociferous energies on doing anything and everything they can to thwart the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline win their successfully trumped-up and completely symbolic environmentalist battle, their misbegotten quest seems to ignore a burgeoning fact of the United States’ economy and energy infrastructure: Especially because of the still-growing oil-and-gas boom borne largely of hydraulic fracturing, the U.S. is going to need a lot more pipeline to cope with the increase in supply.

In terms of terrestrial transport, highly regulated pipelines are a good deal more safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly than the cars and trucks that have been in increasing use, and the current lack of pipeline is also leading to economic waste of natural gas. We need to start updating and expanding the 500,000 miles of interstate pipeline that already crisscross the continental United States, and preferably sooner than later. Via Brad Plumer

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