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Originally Posted by tkflames
Conventional to who? An industry insider or investor?
In 99% of countries convention is to measure fluids in litres. Where this incident occurred the conventional unit of measure is gallons. People can relate 200,000 gallons to jugs of milk or gas tanks in their vehicle.
I am by no means anti pipeline (in fact strongly pro), but when an incident like this occurs the average person should have the impact explained to then in a unit they can understand and relate to.
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Can they though?
They think 200,000 gallons of milk is a lot, but they don't understand that Keystone ships 25,000,000 gallons of milk a day. They don't understand that Keystone has shipped 55,000,000,000 gallons of milk safely in 6 years (I'm being conservative because the pipeline has been operating for almost 10 years now).