Commenting here to post links laterEdit So first off , I completely agree with you . People always think pipelines are great ! They ' ll be far away from your private residence and it ' ll just work . Wrong . Your car needs maintenance , your appliances need maintenance , the hundreds of miles of oil pipelines also need maintenance . The whole opinion of pipelines are environmentally friendly bullshit pisses me off because it ' s the same arrogant behavior people had about the Titanic and that it will never sink . In all honesty we need to get away from coal and oil but solarwind just isn ' t efficient enough with our current methods for our power requirements . Nuclear is really the way to go , when it ' s done correctly . For the linksarticles which took me about 30 seconds to find off Google 1975 % E 2 % 80 % 9399 d i s p l a y s f i v e y e a r s o i l p i p e l i n e s p i l l s u s o i l p i p e l i n e s l e a k e v e r y s i n g l e d a y p r i c esshortagepipelineleakAnd the last two links provided have affected me locally , living here in Atlanta . When a truck that ' s carrying oil spills , hundreds or a couple thousand gallons of oil leaks . When an oil pipeline or any pipeline for that matter breaks and spills , hundreds of thousands gallons spill . Which is easier on the environment ? Which is easier to clean up ? Which is cheaper ? Also for the people that say it doesn ' t affect residential areas . a r k a n s a n s s t i l l s u f f e r i n g e f f e c t s f r o m s e e p i n g o i l monthsaftermayflowerspill . htmlpipelinespillYou can literally see it ' s in a neighborhood .