# Let's talk about the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Protests **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 24, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-dakota-access-pipeline-and-the-protests/772907 "2016-11-24T18:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-dakota-access-pipeline-and-the-protests/772907/32 "2016-11-27T16:42:21Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What happens if this pipeline isn’t built? Crony capitalist Warren Buffet will get even wealthier. If the oil doesn’t come by way of pipeline, it will be shipped by train and Buffet owns those trains. There have been a number of train derailments that have not received much publicity because it would hurt Buffet’s business. He’s a good liberal, don’t you know. See if he was really a great investor, all we would have to do is mimic what he does and we’d all be rich. The secret of his success is leverage and bending the rules. The war on coal was also designed to have the coal shipped to China by trains making him even wealthier. It also seems to me a pipeline is better than a train for carbon emissions. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-dakota-access-pipeline-and-the-protests/772907)._