Another Republican-caused disaster

[Anonymous]

The horrific train derailment of hazardous waste in Ohio - brought to you by Republicans, who constantly push for deregulation and letting businesses cut corners...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

[Anonymous]

I thought trains were so much safer than pipelines?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought trains were so much safer than pipelines?

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have regulations. You know, the regulations that OP’s OP talks about the GOP batting down? Did you read the OP? Can you stay on topic to note that this is yet another disaster birthed by the Republican Party and their inability to do anything for the benefit of the common good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought trains were so much safer than pipelines?

These trains weren't hauling oil. They were hauling hazardous materials.
But if they were hauling oil, what's even safer than trains or pipelines is using less oil and switching to alternatives for energy.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought trains were so much safer than pipelines?

These trains weren't hauling oil. They were hauling hazardous materials.
But if they were hauling oil, what's even safer than trains or pipelines is using less oil and switching to alternatives for energy.

So the lesson learned here then is to use pipelines for shipping hazardous things, not trains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Ugh. I feel so bad for those people. There are also reports of big fish kills and animals dying.
You get what you vote for. How many more of these man-made disasters do we have to have before people finally wake up and realize that Republicans only care about corporate profits and don't care about the communities they destroy on the way to making those profits?

[Anonymous]

Norfolk Southern has a $55 BILLION market cap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought trains were so much safer than pipelines?

These trains weren't hauling oil. They were hauling hazardous materials.
But if they were hauling oil, what's even safer than trains or pipelines is using less oil and switching to alternatives for energy.

So the lesson learned here then is to use pipelines for shipping hazardous things, not trains.

What part of “not hauling oil” is confusing? There are no “hazardous things” pipelines….they are for oil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ugh. I feel so bad for those people. There are also reports of big fish kills and animals dying.
You get what you vote for. How many more of these man-made disasters do we have to have before people finally wake up and realize that Republicans only care about corporate profits and don't care about the communities they destroy on the way to making those profits?

Equal culpability according to David Sirota:

“Chemical lobbyists got Obama officials to exempt the Ohio train from the “high-hazard flammable train” classification & its tough safety regs.

Rail lobbyists then got Trump to repeal a rule to force rail giants to start using better brakes.”

[Anonymous]

Also, see Pete’s DoT also bearing some of the blame:

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/department-of-transportation-train-brake-regulation-ohio-derailment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought trains were so much safer than pipelines?

These trains weren't hauling oil. They were hauling hazardous materials.
But if they were hauling oil, what's even safer than trains or pipelines is using less oil and switching to alternatives for energy.

So the lesson learned here then is to use pipelines for shipping hazardous things, not trains.

What part of “not hauling oil” is confusing? There are no “hazardous things” pipelines….they are for oil.

Crude oil is also a hazardous thing, isn’t it? Sounds like it should be in a pipleline, not in a train.

Please keep up, ok?

[Anonymous]

This entire area is going to be a toxic waste zone. Absolutely catastrophic.

[Anonymous]

If this truly is a Republican disaster tied to their deregulation, then the democrats should be leveraging this to their political advantage.

They won’t, but they should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought trains were so much safer than pipelines?

These trains weren't hauling oil. They were hauling hazardous materials.
But if they were hauling oil, what's even safer than trains or pipelines is using less oil and switching to alternatives for energy.

So the lesson learned here then is to use pipelines for shipping hazardous things, not trains.

What part of “not hauling oil” is confusing? There are no “hazardous things” pipelines….they are for oil.

Crude oil is also a hazardous thing, isn’t it? Sounds like it should be in a pipleline, not in a train.

Please keep up, ok?

The reason Keystone was built is because that Canadian tar sands oil is of such low quality that only a handful of refineries in the entire world are capable of processing it, which is why they pipe it all the way across the entire US. And even when it's refined, it's still not good enough to put in your car. Most of it is ends up going for export.