Okay, so some guys have to make zillions of dollars by
shipping dangerous crude oil around the country by rail, passing through
residential areas where they cause untold horrors when they derail.
They have to make all that money! It's imperative. And so we get repeats of scenes like this:
Crews used cranes and other heavy equipment Thursday to clean up a derailment that plunged oil-carrying tanker cars into a Virginia river while state officials worked to determine the environmental impact of the thousands of gallons of spilled crude.
Apparently,
until bureaucratic fools can agree on a remedy such as retro-fitting
the tankers or building newer, stronger cars, the American people have
to suffer the consequences of these events occurring over and over and
over.
Uh...wouldn't it make sense to say that until
we come up with a solution that everyone can agree on, the trains
should be limited to speeds under 20 mph? Wouldn't that eliminate these
traumatic incidents?
It's
a simple interim solution -- so obviously no one will suggest it.
Remember the book, "The Ugly American"? If a similar, timely book were
written today, it would be called "American Git". We are becoming a
totally senseless country. If you don't believe me, turn on a cable news
station and listen for five minutes.
Uh huh. Gits.
