Ethanol Explosion Kills One, Burn 6, Causes Evacuation of 600 homes.

[NNadir]

The dangerous biofuel ethanol cannot be transported by pipeline because like most elements of the so called "renewables" industry, it is too diffuse. (It is also corrosive to pipelines, but that's another story.)

It's another victory for the car CULTure I guess.

ROCKFORD, Ill. – Railroad tank cars holding thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol derailed and exploded in flames, killing a 41-year-old woman as she tried to run to safety from a car stopped at a crossing.

Three other people from the same car escaped with severe burns. Hundreds of people were evacuated from homes near the explosion.

Eighteen tank cars, all filled with ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, derailed Friday on the edge of Rockford, about 80 miles northwest of Chicago.

The wreckage burned through the night, but the fire was dying down Saturday afternoon as federal investigators began collecting evidence...

...Officials evacuated about 600 homes in the area on the edge of Rockford, about 80 miles northwest of Chicago, Friday night amid concerns about air pollution.

Some people were allowed to return to their homes Saturday, but authorities were not letting anyone within a quarter-mile of the derailment site, said Cherry Valley Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Allen Geeser.

Larry Bruce, who lives near the scene, evacuated with his family, and they spent Friday night in their RV parked at a Wal-Mart. The 41-year-old father said he had no choice but to leave because his twin 21-year-old daughters have respiratory problems.

"We have very little room for error and no room for mistakes," he said, adding that officials have not told him when the air quality will improve.

Air quality problems? I thought ethanol was, um, "clean."

Ironically, the dead woman was in the car herself, stopped at a railroad crossing.

We'll see if the same dogmatic anti-science fundies who are always carrying on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about Three Mile Island will be here 30 years from now having a fetish about the "anniversary" accident.

I suspect they. couldn't. care. less. about this death.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090620/ap_on_re_us/us_illinois_train_derailment

[bread_and_roses]

1. The objections to current ethanol production are not "anti-science"

They are grounded in data that it raises the price of food, requires energy intensive and environmentaly destructive farming.

I am confused by your post. You seem to object to "car culture" but are in favor of ethanol, which is being touted as a way to maintain the status quo and drive your car without guilt?

For that matter, I am not aware of anyone being "anti-ethanol" but rather of objecting to aspects of its production and marketing as a panacea.

[RandomThoughts]

2. The name of the woman that died was Zoila Tellez, may she rest in peace.

and may her friends and family find comfort.
http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x998778420/Tank-cars-blow-up-in-Rockford-derailment-1-killed

The meaning of the name Zoila is Life.
The meaning of the name Tellez is Land or Earth.
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Zoila.html
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/tellez-family-crest.htm

Many of you have seen some anomalies with the word bridge, but none have involved anything but good things. in this case the name is RockFord, and a Ford is a river crossing.

If the name is real, and if the pages that say what they mean are correct, that is more then coincidence. It may have been a set up to create the event, done by people, like a few events during primary, although the purpose would be hard to figure.

Or its really weird, but being of destruction, it is not the good side, or not the side I agree with at least. I do not know the source, but destruction is usually bad. It could have been a manufactured event.

June 20
And this post from the day before about bankers said the following

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3932278
Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks which survived the credit crunch will derail financial regulation reforms.

A lack of competition and a surge in revenues from trading foreign currency, bonds and fixed-income products has sent profits at Goldman Sachs soaring, according to insiders at the firm.

June 19
Also they just canceled the G8 meeting on science and how to deal with global warming.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x199373

[NNadir]

3. I am NOT in favor of ethanol. I am not in favor of the car CULTure.

I have consistently fought against the car CULTure and all of the shell games connected with it, including the electric car game.

[bananas]

5. But you drive a car anyway.

Are you a hypocrite, or do you just come here to troll and disrupt?

[izquierdista]

4. W C Fields is rolling over in his grave

The loss of a whole railroad car, let alone 18! Is nothing sacred?

[excess_3]

6. better than oil from the middle east .n/t