DES MOINES, Iowa - A legal challenge has been mounted against the U.S. Department of Transportation, claiming proposed new agency rules don’t do enough to protect Iowans and others across the country who live along oil train routes…
Read More at: http://www.cbs2iowa.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Legal-Challenge-Over-Train-Safety-Rules-151361.shtml
Just read the linked piece, then Googled Kristen Boyles, a lawyer who didn’t make it as either a journalist or industrial chemist (her Bachelor’s degree was in Creative Writing.) Obviously, someone who, having studied law, believes that eveything she doesn’t like should be cinched up in megapages of legal documents.
As a working mechanic and once merchant marine cadet, I can guarantee that there’s no such thing as perfect safety. Even feathered birds sometimes fall out of the sky. The FRA and NTSB have to work within the limits of the (economically) possible. I don’t see this green weenie and her environmentalist cohorts offering to buy entire fleets of up-armored tank cars from their own purses.
Activists of all stripes are really good about trying to mandate huge expenditures of other people’s money on a (mostly) non-problem. Of course, to them, cost-benefit analysis is a swearword.
I wonder what Kristen-baby thinks about all those megatons of jet fuel flying overhead. An aircraft crash is all but guaranteed to result in a fireball - much more so than an oil train derailment.
Chuck (retired aircraft mechanic)