About the headline, Walt Kelly's comic strip character, Pogo, used this expression to suggest that we are our own worst enemies. Walt Kelly was a great political satirist and was deadly accurate.The United States is still one of the few developed nations without a national energy policy. When several people are killed by a runaway freight train in Canada, who is to blame? Some people say Big Oil, of course. However, the Irving Oil Co. in Canada, which was shipping oil on a train that had an accident, has nothing to do with crude oil distribution or Big Oil. The fact is that the amount of oil shipped by rail is up 256% since 2011. That seems odd since, in my opinion, both truck and rail movement of crude oil is more expensive, more polluting than pipelines.
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