If only there were some safer way to move oil and other dangerous liquid commodities besides on trains or semi-tractor trucks.

Like maybe in pipes underground.   

There would still be risk to both the environment and to human beings because human beings are imperfect, but if the explosions and leaks were primarily underground, it would be safer than coming down the Columbia Gorge on a railroad track or down I-5.

There are 16,000 miles of "pipelines" in Oregon including that gasoline one from Portland to Eugene.  Most of them carry natural gas.  

I don't recall the last pipeline that blew up in Oregon.  

There was one in Washington State back in 1999 that killed three people and "....was the first conviction against a pipeline company under the 1979 Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Pipeline_explosion