On Monday, he suggested there are too many white people working in construction...
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Ohio, claiming, “we’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation,” and citing a “braking rule” that was withdrawn under the Trump administration.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on Tuesday, Buttigieg claimed, “We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation,” and cited “the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015.”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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On Monday, he suggested there are too many white people working in construction...
W is now thinking, ‘Well at least they don’t blame me for everything anymore.’
Such a deceitful, scurvy dog. The ideal Democrat.
Is that a pearl neclace under the tie?
Thanks for ruining that song for me.
He is a sick, silly man of no character.
Pete ButtPlug Government Rump Ranger
Very original
How many people will believe him. Plenty I’d say.
SPJNK.
“U.S. railroads have engaged in extensive real-world tests of ECP brakes and found that the failure rate of ECP systems is significant, and the repair time is much too long to make them practical. Worse, ECP-equipped trains that became unmovable due to ECP failures blocked the track for other trains and caused far-reaching disruptions.”
much more at:
https://www.aar.org/article/ecp-brakes/#!
Mayor Pete needs to go there and face the people in person. Nothing else will do.
How many days to come up with that whopper?
“How many people will believe him. Plenty I’d say.”
Why 81 million at least! /s/
In a normal world, nobody would even know the name of the Sec. of Transportation. We only know his because his tenure has been one of catastrophe after catastrophe.
It probably won’t be long before Little Peter blames Trump for him being a homosexual. Buttplug loves to always pin things on somebody other than himself. He’s more like a Butthead.
Mayor Pete is in his element, when he’s pointing a crooked finger and BLAMING somebody for something.
That gets him more excited, more volitle than anything else.
Explaining the Biden Administration’s Transportation Policies does not light Mayor Pete up at all. Easier for him to change the subject, and go back to pointing fingers at some unseen foe.
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