Posted on 02/17/2023 8:54:13 AM PST by conservative98
CLAIM: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is blaming former President Donald Trump for the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, claiming, “we’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation,” and citing a “braking rule” that was withdrawn under the Trump administration.
VERDICT: False.
While it is true that in 2018 the Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew a proposed rule requiring trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals to use electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, this rule would not have applied to the train that derailed in East Palestine on February 3.
In addressing the train derailment on Tuesday, Buttigieg claimed, “We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation,” and cited “the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015.”
Buttigieg’s assertion, however, is incorrect.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy announced on Thursday that if this particular rule were to have gone into effect, the mandate would have applied only to trains classified as high-hazard flammable trains.
“This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes,” Homendy said, and she suggested that anyone who says otherwise is “spreading misinformation.”
On Thursday, Norfolk Southern corroborated Homendy’s comments, telling Breitbart News that the train in question “was not considered a high-hazard flammable train.”
Therefore, the braking rule cited by Buttigieg would not have applied to the train operated by Norfolk Southern that derailed in East Palestine earlier this month.
What is more, Buttigieg has been the Transportation Secretary for two years now. So if he is, in fact, worried about alleged constraints regarding areas of rail regulation, he has had time to address these concerns.
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buttJUGs and pedoPIG; .whadda combo. Like two peas on an ayslum pod.
Both morons. one in diapers and one in condoms....LOL
I never thought that Mayor Pete was a serious candidate, but when the MSM is dunking on you as “transportation secretary” you know it’s over.
This guy has bumbled from one gaffe to another since he started and his “wokeness” act appears like a SouthPark episode.
Buttigieg is a lyin’ dog faced pony soldier!
He's scared of dead people. And there might be blood.
He probably faints at the sight of blood.
Will we see/hear Buttigieg take back his remarks.
If an administration official has constipation - it’s Trump’s fault! I would like to see/hear just once, someone from the administration speak WITHOUT bringing up “the previous administration” or “Trump”....They can’t do it!
Buttijudge also said a thousand derailings a year which is a blatent lie.
It’s either Blame Trump or Blame Russia..
Not much of a playbook they are working with..
And that idiot Kevin Costner wants Buttplug to be president!
Biden and Buttigieg are careening from one disaster to another.
He’s a dem. What else could he do?
Who is Kevin what’s his name?
Petey Buttplug. The Screaming Bender from South Bend, Indiana.
From what I have read this was caused by bearings overheating causing an axle on one of the cars to fail. ECB wouldn’t have helped.
The other day on Andrew Wilkow’s show, a man called in who had been an engineer and higher for the railroads for 50 years.
He said the electronic braking issue is a straw man as most trains are a mix of cars that have either mechanical or electronic braking. That being the case, he said that the electronically braked cars would slow no faster than the mechanically braked ones.
He said the only instance where there may have been a marginal advantage is if every car on the train had electronic braking control, which would have been extremely rare.
Pete likes the smell of poop.
Should have made him secretary of Agriculture.
Plenty of poop down on the farm.
The train was on fire and the owners were informed and they said to the conductor to keep moving. I think there is a big lawsuit coming.
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