Show The Unseen Highway Theros Thero's n a highway which amounts to ono one of the tho great transportation systems of world history which few of us ever see or so much fiS as know InloW n about ont It consists of somo miles of laid petroleum and 1 natural gas l pipelines carrying millions of gallons 1 and cubic feet of low cost energy fuel each day The Tho over nil length of these lines is the tho equivalent of nearly two round trips to the tho moon loon In fact oil and gas are aro transported more swiftly an and efficiently than Hum over before no matter what agency of movement is used The Tho largest U S built is an oil tinker tanker of 10 OO tans She Sho recently completed leer ml del voyage carrying a load of gallons of heating oil and gas gas- gasoline oline from Texas to N New CW York There has been comparable progress in lan land transport A recent development is n a in bulgo middle design for rail railcars cars which n a shell capacity of gallons per carp three times that of a conventional tank car Yet the tho car is only a few inches over 58 feet long And pressurized cars carry big quantities of liquefied petroleum gas The Tho whole idea is to get oil anti and its pro products to time tho consumer us as quickly efficiently and economic ally os as human n ingenuity allows Ind News |