The biggest messes get the most attention.
Try having one go off the rails hauling crude oil, Petey.
AMAZING! how much attention that gets, especially if there is a fire involved.
In fact, the same people who banned pipelines wanted to stop that first, because of a couple of spectacular (and tragic) derailments, and blamed 'Big Oil'.
(Funny, if a boxcar load of Charmin goes off the rails, they don't blame 'Big Toilet Paper', even though it is a product even more universally used than oil)