# You know if all these pipeline people want to be useful why cant we get water pipelines?

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> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> Not sure how much it _actually_ costs to pipe liquids long distances, but you can see the economics are quite different for expensive and cheap commodities

According to [this](https://coek.info/pdf-pipeline-economics-.html) it looks like the cost was about $0.13/gallon/100miles. We’d be looking at ~3,000 miles of pipeline so we’d be looking at $4/gallon just in pipeline maintenance and operating costs.

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