Massive Pipeline Rupture Coats Streets Of Los Angeles In ‘Knee-High’ Crude Oil

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Massive Pipeline Rupture Coats Streets Of Los Angeles In ‘Knee-High’ Crude Oil

Massive Pipeline Rupture Coats Streets Of Los Angeles In 'Knee-High' Crude Oil | ThinkProgress

Residents in Atwater Village in northeast Los Angeles woke up Thursday morning to find crude oil flowing down their streets. A 20 inch wide, above-ground oil line ruptured around 1 a.m., sending a geyser of oil 20 feet into the air according to local reports. The oil has coated a half-square-mile area of the mostly industrial neighborhood.

Oil in some areas was reported to be knee-high. According to current estimates, 10,000 gallons of crude oil poured onto the streets before the line could be remotely turned off. Two people were sent to the hospital after they reported feeling nauseous. People at the scene said that the smell of oil was very strong.

 

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Where was the government bureaucrat who was supposed to monitor the oil pressure? Was he watching porn on the computer like the bureaucrats who maintain the Obamacare system? Wouldn't you think the safety system in place in the most populated city in the world would automatically shut off the pressure in seconds of a failure in the system? Blame fossil fuel decadence or Jerry Brown. The location and the timing of the political confrontation about the Keystone Pipeline indicates the possibility of a sophisticated ongoing sabotage by left wing radical anti-American and anti-fossil fuel radicals. Don't count on Eric Holder's "justice dept" to do anything but a whitewash investigation though.