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Show Pipelines carry over 500 million gallons of oil products daily $70 million a year on maintenance. mainten-ance. They also supported federal fed-eral legislation enacted in 1965, giving the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to set safety standards for oil pipelines. The nation's 213,000 miles of liquid petroleum pipe lines transport more than 500 million mil-lion gallons of crude oil and refined products every day. Oil Facts, a publication of the American Petroleum Institute, Insti-tute, says this amount of fuel would fill the cargo tanks of 63,000 tank trucks. Parked bumper to bumper, they would form a line 400 miles long. If all of this fuel were gasoline, it could fill the tanks of 25 million automobiles With more than 100 years of experience behind them, oil pipelines have achieved remarkable remark-able records in efficiency, economy econ-omy and safety, according to Oil Facts. No system for moving mov-ing frieght has a better safety record than oil pipelines. Accidents Acci-dents involving these lines are so rare that they accounted for only three one-thousandths of one per cent of the accidental deaths recorded in the United States in the past decade. Oil pipeliners adhere s'trictly to a series of safety codes and. standards, and spend more than |