No - it wasn't deregulation

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U.S. Workers Blame Ohio Train Derailment on Corporate Cost Cutting - Toward Freedom

After 50 derailed train cars in the U.S. Midwestern state of Ohio caused an explosive fire that led to the release of toxic fumes into the air, workers argue corporate cost-cutting was the culprit. Peoples Dispatch reports.

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A report by The Lever highlighted that in 2017 during Republican Donald Trump’s presidency, Norfolk Southern lobbyists successfully rescinded regulations aimed at improving railroad safety regulations. Specifically, the company successfully beat back measures that would require train cars carrying hazardous, flammable materials to be equipped with electronic brakes which can stop trains more effectively than conventional brakes. Railroad company donors delivered over USD$6 million to Republican Party campaigns in the 2016 election cycle, but still claimed that safety regulations would “impose tremendous costs without providing offsetting safety benefits.”

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Last year, railroad workers in the United States were on the cusp of a strike, which would have shattered the U.S. economy as rail workers are some of the most essential workers in the nation. Workers were demanding more sick leave to combat the effects of “Precision Scheduled Railroading,” a corporate scheme to cut costs by demanding more work from fewer workers. Infamously, U.S. President Joe Biden and the U.S. Congress blocked rail workers’ right to strike by rapidly passing legislation that forced workers to accept an agreement without sick days.

 

[Buckeyes85]

So far nothing but crickets....I think they are too busy deflecting from the fact that their deregulation is turning out to be a disaster.

Perhaps already mentioned in this thread but when Trump was asked while in East Palestine about the rollback of the Obama during his administration, he didn't say: those regs had nothing to do with this disaster; or those regs were simply not feasible after a thorough cost/benefit analysis.

Instead he said: "I had nothing to do with it. " and repeated, "Had nothing to do with it."

So was he lying or admitting gross incompetence? Had no idea what his secretary of Transportation was doing on some pretty important safety issues?

 

[phoenix2020]

Perhaps already mentioned in this thread but when Trump was asked while in East Palestine about the rollback of the Obama during his administration, he didn't say: those regs had nothing to do with this disaster; or those regs were simply not feasible after a thorough cost/benefit analysis.

Instead he said: "I had nothing to do with it. " and repeated, "Had nothing to do with it."

So was he lying or admitting gross incompetence? Had no idea what his secretary of Transportation was doing on some pretty important safety issues?

It's Trump. Obviously he had no idea what his administration was doing. He spent half of his term playing golf, tweeting and watching TV. He was never a guy who sweated details.

 

[Buckeyes85]

Maybe you should start a thread on it if you think it is such an interesting question. This thread is about the Biden administration lying about the cause of the derailment. So I get why you want to deflect.

Rather curious comment.
I did not bring up the topic of Biden's response. Nor did Iguanaman. One of yours did. And we asked him to defend it.
Tell me, did you rush to correct him and advise that his point was not relevant to this thread? Or do you just want to admit your blatant hypocrisy now and move on?

This board would certainly look a lot different if we were take the approach: I'm not going to comment, or offer a retort to a comment made by another poster in the thread in which they make it. Instead, I'm going to go start a whole new thread asking them to respond to my question about their comment in a different thread.

 

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[iguanaman]

Car makers were able to pass those costs (and then some) to car buyers. The same is true of mandating higher cost train cars, that cost (and then some) will be passed on to those using rail transport.

A key difference being that the relatively low cost of adding seatbelts (and then some) could be 100% recovered almost immediately even if the car remains in service for decades. Off course, older cars without seat belts were still allowed to be driven.

That’s unlikely to be the case for better train brakes since they cost more per rail car and won’t likely be allowed to be recovered nearly as fast. Also it’s unlikely that older rail cars (with current brakes) would be allowed to remain in use for their (otherwise) natural life.

LOL It is a ridiculous assumption that we cannot afford to have brakes that work on train cars. Where the hell did you get that idea? Technology has changed everything else but trains are sacred and must use the same brakes they have had since 1860? It is a simple upgrade and could easily pay for itself by averting or diminishing accidents like this. The auto makers fought against safety regs and we forged ahead anyway didn't we? Car deaths per mile traveled have gone down exponentially.

 

[Michael Cole]

Every Republican who signed that letter is dumb as shit. There are a couple dozen.

 

[Gateman_Wen]

4 BIDENS. (pinocchios) Been debunked. Read up . Catch up.

Nope, it hasn't.

Some desperate RWNJs have made some excuses, that's all.

 

[eohrnberger]

Yes, the left supports pipelines where they make sense.

The right supports pipelines where they make sense, and they also support pipelines to run corrosive Canadian sludge across our aquifers on proven-to-leak-repeatedly pipelines to refineries that convert said sludge into industrial lubricants that are then sold to pre-Ukraine Invasion Russia.

I personally think that it's weird how they support Canada's sale of industrial lubricants to Russia but, well, I guess Tucker told them to, so what's a righty to do, eh?

You have a differing opinion on this. Bully for you.

 

[Moon]

So we should just expect this to happen time to time?

Not sure how you arrived at that conclusion from what I posted, but if you believe there is some cure all solution so that transportation accidents can never, ever happen again, you should tell Mayor Pete.

 

[Simpletruther]

So we should write this one off as just the cost of shipping goods via train? Tell the citizens of East Palestine to stoop whining?

Well that is exactly what Biden did by doing nothing.