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Article: Oil pipelines keep American moving
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- August 23, 2008
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Oil pipelines are frequently in the news these days because they
can have a big effect on oil prices. For example, if a war or
terrorist activity threatens to shut down an important pipeline, oil
prices can rise. Oil pipelines also make the news when they leak.
One of the best-known pipelines in the United States is the Trans
Alaska Pipeline System. It stretches north-to-south for 800 miles
across the state of Alaska. The oil comes out of the ground at the
North Slope near Prudhoe Bay, flows down the pipeline to the port of
Valdez, loads onto a supertanker, floats down to the west coast,
unloads into another pipeline and makes its way to a refinery. The
Alaska pipeline is needed because ...
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