Dateline, Clearbrook, Minnesota
A ruptured pipeline which carries more than a million barrels of crude oil from Saskatchewan to the Chicago area caught fire while under repair last month. The result was sadly predictable: boom! I don’t wish to seem glib, especially since several people died, but can’t we come to grips with the root cause? Ruptured pipelines point to a fatally flawed, antiquated technology.
So, if you ask why are gas prices so high, the answer consists of one word, instability. That’s one of the reasons I am so enamored with the Interstate Traveler. You see, the system is plated with stainless steel an inch thick. It is impervious to hurricane-spawned effects such as high seas and winds. It is designed to last for centuries with very little maintenance. It is designed to detect and respond to those rare technical glitches quite literally in an instant. In short, the Interstate Traveler is designed to be the most stable transportation platform on the planet.
The instability in ruptured pipelines we have now is preventable with the right solution. The disastrous example in Minnesota only points to the dangers of performing maintenance on a pipeline which has sprung a leak from ordinary wear and tear. What about oil ducts built atop tundra which has begun to melt? In that situation, the pipelines might be structurally sound but cease to be so quite quickly when their foundation turns to the consistency of wet pasta.
Then, there is the issue of sabotage. Why are gas prices so high? Well, in Nigeria, starving inhabitants have been known to deliberately poke holes in the pipeline to capture as much petroleum as they can to burn or sell. The environmental impacts of doing so are awful but the results also drive up the price we pay at the pump.
The Interstate Traveler solves both problems because the conduit cluster will be elevated at least 30 feet above the terrain. What’s more, there is a series of self-sensing cut-off valves within the conduit so that, in the unlikely event of a breach, the flow of oil is stanched almost immediately.
Best of all, the public private partnership, under which the Interstate Traveler Company shares half the revenue with the government and people of Nigeria, will provide a steady stream of income which can be used to fund food banks, homeless shelters, health clinics and other basic services so that the saboteurs won’t have to worry about starving once they no longer can cause ruptured pipelines in their quest for quick cash.
We can do the same thing in the United States, protecting the flow of fuel from Canada and feeding the hungry without raising taxes!
As you read more and more about Justin Sutton and his amazing invention, I hope that you can see why the American Computer Science Association had no choice but to select the Interstate Traveler for its Sir Isaac Newton Award. The technology really is that altruistic (and brilliant)!
Sustainable Justice For All!
Corbett Kroehler
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