Posted on 10/12/2021 1:08:19 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Critics are asking what Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is doing about the congestion of cargo ships at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as investigators point to a cargo ship’s anchor as a likely cause of a recent oil spill in the area.
As Breitbart News reported last month, there is a massive backup of cargo ships off the coast of Southern California, due to a variety of factors, including rising import demand, insufficient trucking, and workers’ reluctance to do night shifts.
On Friday, an undersea pipeline linked to an offshore oil platform leaked roughly 144,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean.
Federal investigators suggested an anchor might have been the cause, and on Tuesday, an expert suggested that the backlog of cargo ships might have brought ships to coastal waters where they were unfamiliar with undersea infrastructure.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that “supply chain issues may have caused [the] California oil spill”:
The combination of oil production and global shipping in the same coastal area is now at the center of an investigation into the cause of a massive oil spill that sent crude onto Orange County beaches and sensitive wetland areas.
The U.S. Coast Guard is looking at the possibility that the crush of shipping traffic came into violent contact with this network of undersea infrastructure and triggered a spill that sent an estimated 144,000 gallons of oil into the ocean.
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Secretary buttplug is found bringing up the rear
Politicians do not get appointments due to competency. The reasons for appointments are political payback, or appeasing a group. Like Harris, Buttigieg is in over his head and has no chance of applying solutions that work.
Now, we must also consider that the Biden handlers are just fine with things breaking down, and really don’t want solutions that work. It’s important to train the public to accept shortages.
Given President Trump’s background in business, this would not be happening were he still in office.
Buttgag knows all about being backed up
Where’s Pete? Trying out for the Village People? They don’t have a DOT guy yet.
Will environmentalists blame bootygag for this f’ up?
No, silly, they'll blame Trump.
..........he only got the job b/c he takes it in the rear........lol........
doing about the congestion of cargo ships at the ports.....
Leading from Behind.
Changing diapers
I’m shocked that the homosexual ex-mayor of some little town doesn’t know what to do about a potential TOTAL COLLAPSE of the country’s logistics chain. If Trump were still in office those ships would get unloaded, somehow.
Where’s Pete? Likely too pre occupied with his butt buddy Husband trying to figure out taht Breast feeding thingy with their new borns.
144,000 gallons? That’s gross. (I’ll be here all week...)
Packing Fudge.
The left thinks any creature tagged with Harvard, Yale, Oxford or Rhodes Scholar has to be a genius. Experience not required.
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