Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg condemned the shooting at Michigan State University, which has nothing to do with his job.
Then again, I don’t think Buttigieg has ANY idea what his job entails.
Anthony McRae, the suspected gunman, killed three people at MSU on Monday night. He killed himself, too. Five people went to the hospital with injuries. No one knows his motive.
A train carrying toxic and dangerous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, OH, on February 3. The EPA identified four dangerous chemicals. The agency identified THREE days after officials told residents they could return!
A train, a mode of transportation, is something a transportation secretary should address.
Buttigieg finally said something about the train disaster yesterday…10 days after the derailment.
Buttigieg “continues to be concerned.” I had no idea he even knew it happened.
Buttigieg spent his time on stage yesterday afternoon complaining about too many whites in construction and joking about all the transportation problems that have happened since he took the job.
The residents of East Palestine and surrounding areas are scared. Dead animals are showing up around the area. Hazardous materials experts cannot believe the EPA allowed people to return. Many don’t want to because they don’t believe the EPA.
Can you blame them? I can’t!
Our AMAZING Leslie Eastman analyzed the chemicals and materials released after the crash:
One of the critical considerations in assessing the response to this incident is that both vinyl chloride and ethylhexyl acrylate (two of the chemicals being shipped in tank cars) can undergo hazardous polymerization. This means at elevated temperatures, the small molecules will join together to form larger molecules and release a lot of energy and toxic compounds while doing so.Isobutylene is a flammable gas, and under prolonged exposure to fire or heat, containers of this material may rupture violently and rocket.Therefore, if the responders could not control those three tanks’ temperatures, then the best option would be to burn the material in place. Otherwise, instead of 5 burning tanks releasing decomposition products, there may have been three or more exploding tanks….which would have released the same decomposition products but could have caused substantially more physical devastation.
We’re lucky to have Leslie on our team. She stressed that the rail system is the best way to transport these chemicals.
So we must get down to the root of the problem that caused the train to go off the tracks.
Do your job, Buttigieg.
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