Don Steinke’s Feb. 25 letter “Oil spills demonstrate danger” is another letter from an alarmist predicting death and destruction with regard to trains hauling oil cars –that is a lot of hogwash.
In 2013, there were more than 400,000 cars full of oil traveling along our railways. That number has only gone up with the latest estimates of nearly 500,000 in 2014, the last year available. If we extrapolate those numbers, in “the last three years” there have easily been more than 1.5 million rail cars of oil traversing this country with only 14 derailments.
No one wants a derailment of any kind in their city or neighborhood, but that facts are, they happen so infrequently that someone is much, much more likely to die in a vehicle crash or in any number of other ways, yet I’d bet they drive daily.
