Posted on 02/17/2023 9:44:54 AM PST by conservative98
A member of Biden’s own administration called U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s claims about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio — in which he blamed former President Donald Trump — “misinformation.”
On Tuesday, while addressing the rail disaster, Buttigieg falsely claimed he is “constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation” and cited a “braking rule” that was withdrawn in 2018, under the Trump administration.
Buttigieg was referring to the Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrawing a proposed rule requiring trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals to use electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes.
After that, social media users circulated this claim on Twitter, echoing Buttigieg by blaming Trump for the train derailment in Ohio earlier this month.
But on Thursday, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy took to Twitter to implore the public to “PLEASE STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION” about what caused the train disaster.
While lamenting about what she called “misinformation,” Homendy mentioned the false claim promulgated by Buttigieg on Tuesday.
“For example,” she said, “Some are saying the ECP (electronically controlled pneumatic) brake rule, if implemented, would’ve prevented this derailment. FALSE.”
The NTSB Chair went on to explain that “The ECP braking rule would’ve applied ONLY to HIGH HAZARD FLAMMABLE TRAINS,” and that “the train that derailed in East Palestine was a MIXED FREIGHT TRAIN containing only 3 placarded Class 3 flammable liquids cars.”
“This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes,” Homendy declared.
In additional tweets, Homendy stressed that “nothing is more important than accuracy at a moment like this,” and that “anyone speculating about what happened, didn’t happen, or should’ve happened is misleading a suffering community.”
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Pete has an adorable husband. That’s what you need to know.
WHat actually did cause the derailment?
Broken track?
Failed wheel?
Failed brakes?
Sabotage?................................
So says Petey the Pillow Biter.
Anyone from Ohio?
This is horrible & who’s the idiot that said to just trust the government?
Animals/fish are dead?
Why hasn’t DeWine declared disaster?
So scary & sad for those residents..
Reminds me of that movie, w/Erin Brockovich
Sure you can trust the government, just ask an Indian.
Based on the video evidence I saw yesterday there was a hot box on one of the cars - likely caused by a stuck hand brake OR overheated or failed bearings on an axle. This generated a massive amount of heat and eventually metal fails when heated beyond its capacity. You fail an axle at speed on a heavily loaded train and you are going to get a derailment.
The engineer either ignored or failed to recognize the problem (I doubt this - they have sensors along the rail lines that should have notified him that he had a “hot box”) or the engineer was denied permission to stop the train and address the problem because blocking a rail line can costs millions of dollars per 30 minute increments. The video below shows what was happening 20km prior to the derailment. They should have stopped the train.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiXZUgQEwc
A “hot box” is the term used when an axle bearing overheats on a piece of railway rolling stock
Air brakes work for trains but the bigger the train the harder it is to stop and there are shortcomings for air brakes in these situations.
The obvious changes that I expect are to limit the size of trains carrying hazmat materials AND to implement a mandatory stoppage and fire department response to a hot box.
Profit has to be balanced against risks. Boeing just learned a hard lesson about this and I suspect that the railroads are on the same path at the moment.
They’re backing away from Little Peter Buttcrack in more ways than one. Maybe we’ll get lucky and Pete will be next to go.
It's what DIDN'T happen in the aftermath that is the scandal.
I think maybe they appointed old pete Make Biden’s look like they are not so bad
I'm surprised there isn't already rule in place!.............
The railroad is incredibly powerful politically so they are very good at resisting federal regulations that impact their bottom line.
Are they self-insured or do they have an underwriter?..............
I believe the big rail companies are self-insured but I will defer to others if they have first-hand knowledge.
Butt Plug is out of here. Soon, to be replaced by KJP.
Government never lies..it’s just “misinformation”.
Everything the Biden administration deals with ends up in the crapper keep flushing.
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