On the subject of pipelines, or lack of them, or the old age of some of them. One of the local Chicago papers, which I am surprised didn't cause much of a stink with the green crowd, reported on the age of a pipeline running down to my area in Northwest Indiana, that runs through both upper and lower Michigan from Canada. The pipeline is over 60 years old, installed just before or during the early 1950's. It crosses the great lakes under the Mackinac Bridge (through the water on the bottom, not the bridge, since the bridge wasn't there yet).
Do you honestly believe any oil company has a chance in h*ll of even getting a replacement built that goes through or over the lake (like on the bridge itself)?
Granted, there is likely nothing really wrong with that line, but this anti-oil nonsense only insures that oil lines get very old.
