Posted on 05/07/2022 8:01:51 PM PDT by blam
Note that “Atlas Shrugged” was written as intent.
The pic is not a coal train.....
Don’t bother emailing Trans. Czar Buttigieg about these problems. He’s likely to be too busy tweeting mean remarks about a ficticious ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill in Florida.
“A BNSF train climbs Edelstein Hill near Chillicothe, Ill.”
\I would submit that there are no real “hills” in the Ill State.
Lot of this stuff could be shipped by pipelines.
Oh, I forgot, Brandon is closing pipelines!
“a shortage of train crews.”
Where are the Chain Gangs?
National Guard?
“Note that “Atlas Shrugged” was written as intent.”
Poor rail service was the end of the book! Now we are living it.
Some group's throwing monkey wrenches into supply networks... all these mini disasters aren't random accidents.
Meanwhile.....
How many coal fired power plants are there in the world today?
The EU has 468 - building 27 more... Total 495
Turkey has 56 - building 93 more... Total 149
South Africa has 79 - building 24 more... Total 103
India has 589 - building 446 more... Total 1035
Philippines has 19 - building 60 more... Total 79
South Korea has 58 - building 26 more... Total 84
Japan has 90 - building 45 more... Total 135
China has 2,363 - building 1,171 more... Total = 3,534
That’s 5,615 projected coal powered plants in just 8 countries.
Billary PROMISED to shut down all USA coal. Obambi tried.
Also, France gets about 70% of its energy from nuclear power, and they just announced they will build another 40+ nuke plants.
Is there anything this bunch of chowder heads can’t screw up?
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“BNSF defended its controversial Hi-Viz attendance policy, which is designed to boost crew availability.”
That apparently translates into no predictable work schedule and the need to be on call all of the time. BNSF railroad crews dislike that policy enough that they have been quitting.
What looks good on paper to some MBA with regular hours becomes intolerable to the blue collars who have to live with it.
But we are going net zero! We are going to save the world!
We have an existential threat to all life on the erf!
We will cut our own throats to do our part!
Indeed. Those freight cars are auto carriers.
>> Note that “Atlas Shrugged” was written as intent. <<
Not sure what you mean. Ayn Rand was an evil woman, a former Soviet consumed with a Nazi-like hatred for Christianity, but she was depicting the fate of America if Lefties ran unchecked. The evil in her work consists mostly in the way her heroes are those who are so filled with disgust at what she predicts will come of America that they are happy to let 99.9% of humanity collapse into starvation and death, for the chance to rebuild society to be dominated by “innovators.” While the hero, Dagney Taggart, was busy deciding who she liked getting boned by the most, Eddie was keeping her railroad running with miraculously competent brilliance, but he only worked for Dagney, so wasn’t deserving of salvation.
A few years ago, I was a van driver hauling railroad crews to and from BNSF trains. We had to drive engineers and conductors to and from trains all night long. There are strict federal rules about the length of time a railroad crew may work.
There were often “dead trains” which had to be abandoned by crews out of hours. These trains might be stopped in the middle of nowhere so the fresh crews had to be delivered to them at all hours of the day and night.
I remember one time where high winds knocked over empty coal cars which created a nightmare bottleneck in far western Nebraska.
Crew scheduling even then was a nightmare. This is a relentless challenge to keep freight moving.
Ominous signs everywhere of an economy that cannot recover from Covid, disastrous Biden Administration immigration policy, disastrous borrowing and spending on giveaways and fealty to victim groups to an insane urge to commit to WWIII over Ukraine.
Yet, according to Biden and his handlers the economy is going like gangbusters and we’re too stupid to realize it (Lizard Lips Carville).
What gets them out of bed and ready for action? Abortion and the inevitable overturning of Roe v Wade.
Turn away from DC and don’t look back lest you be turned into a pillar of salt.
And they want everyone driving electric cars?
Seriously, is this a scene from Atlas Shrugged or what the heck is going on in the world?
Are we really going to just sit around and let them and all their regulations collapse the United States?
Straight from the book, “Atlas Shrugged”.
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