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Originally Posted by Rpenner
I thought I posted this before but not sure where it ended up . But my thought is pipe lines can move oil and ore why not groceries and building materials . That would reduce the big rig traffic on ferries and cost saving could be deployed in cost deficient areas opening the door to an innovating future. The cost of pipelines I have not researched but based on the price of oil ????
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I doubt that some sort of conveyor system to move goods would be called a "pipeline" - that's usually used for liquefied goods.
And the cost of offloading goods from trucks or trains on one side and reloading them back onto other trucks or trains on the other side would probably be more expensive than the sea transport. The cheapest way to do it would be leave goods in containers, but that would mean building something that could convey objects of that size. Since they're pretty much car sized, you might as well bite the bullet and just make it a road.