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Enbridge U.S. oil line to be shut for four more days

Reuters -- A key segment of Enbridge Inc's oil pipeline system in the U.S. Midwest will remain shut down for up to four more days after a deadly vehicle accident in Illinois caused an oil leak and fire, likely squeezing supplies for refiners in the region, the company said on Sunday.

The shutdown of Enbridge's 318,000 barrel a day Line 14/64, part of a network that carries oil produced in Canada to Griffith, Indiana, from Superior, Wisconsin, is also expected to pressure already-weak prices for Canadian crude this week as supplies back up in Alberta, market sources and analysts said.

Enbridge, whose pipelines carry the bulk of Canadian oil exports to the United States, idled the line early Saturday after what emergency officials described as a two-vehicle collision at an above-ground portion of the

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Insignificant in the long run.
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Big problem.
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not good.
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another excuses to increased gas prices
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Not good...
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The more cars the more car accidents will happen!?

[Edited by: 76chevy at 3/7/2012 12:07:41 AM EST]
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bah humbug
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That sux!
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So much for safety of pipelines....
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Hope all's well...
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The more pipelines, the more pipeline accidents that will happen.
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Really....
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Not good for us, is it?
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Surprise, surprise....
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the white (?) house is keeping it's promise
not to import a single drop of Canadian oil
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Were the cars drive by oil executives or Wall Street speculators wanting the price of fuel to rise again?
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gas up
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Just fix the durn thing dang it!!!!
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Wasn't the pipeline protected?
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Betting that the price doesn't come back down when the problem ends.
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small reasons for the oil companies to rise prices
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This a short term problem that will be back on line shortly.
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More pressure for prices to increase...
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a temporary problem with longer lasting price increases
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A temporary problem that will be resolved in a few more days.
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A reasonable time for closure and repair -- then when repairs are finished, resume production.
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and the merry go round goes round and round
and the painted ponies go up and down...
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counting down is going
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sh*t happens
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Any excuse to raise prices will do.
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get er done...
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Not very smart to drag race where the finish line is a pipeline.
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wow that's a lot of oil in a line
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ok
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human error, human tragedy...
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No way!
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Up Goes The $$$$$
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So, fix it. Next!
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Fix it and move on.
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did not realize a car accident could cause such a problem...whew
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You heard of railroads?
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fix, clean, and get back to work
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Here we go again!
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Another reason that the Keystone pipeline should have been approved. When completed it would have been an alternate way to transport the raw crude.
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A lame excuse to keep prices rising.
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I guess gas is going up again!
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News guaranteed to make the speculators salivate.
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Higher gas prices?
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whats next
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rising gas prices
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