I saw this Tweet from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
This was Philadelphia after an oil refinery exploded this morning.
So… what’s that about how climate change isn’t an existential crisis that will disproportionately impact working class people & burn its way up?
We need a solution on the scale of the crisis: #GreenNewDeal 🌎 https://t.co/5vNMrrUZBg
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019
The explosion occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia. That refinery was the old SUNOCO, Inc. refinery before they merged with The Carlyle Group to form Philadelphia Energy Solutions.
I know that refinery quite well. It was my first job as a chemical engineer. I was on the fuel gas management team. My office was on the building off Passyunk Avenue.
That was the job that inspired me to go to grad school because refining was so boring.
I have no idea what the cause of the refinery explosion was, but I know it wasn’t global warming.
There is going to be a Congressional hearing on this, I can guarantee it.
Why? Because it is going to affect fuel prices. Also, people have political motivations to do so.
It’s times like this that I want to be in Congress.
Because they are going to invite a bunch of oil refinery representatives to be grilled by a bunch of Members of Congress who are nothing but fucking lawyers, liars, activists, and an ex-bartender.
And I want to be the one engineer and PE in that room who actually knows something.
Inject just a tiny bit of competence into that den of mentally defective jackals.
You should do it.
Unfortunately I can’t vote for you.
Obligatory just register as a Democrat comment.
If you choose to do so I’d gladly donate to your campaign.
The question is, though, are you ready to take on the emotional toll – to both you and your family – that this would entail? I suspect it’s much easier if one chooses the expedient pathway through the halls of power, but from your writings, I don’t think that’s who you are.
My dad was chief engineer for Ford Bacon and Davis, Texas . They designed refineries . They worked real hard to make refining boring. He would have considered your complaint pretty funny.
Yes we need a few PE’s in Congress . The problem is, most PE’s are busy earning their keep doing something productive and don’t have the time for the consummate idiocy that is American politics. Only lawyers have the time for such foolishness.
But I’ll contribute to your campaign. No joke.
Man, what’s stopping you, really? The bar is set so low that a know nothing virtue signalling bartender got in. An actual working professional is clearly a step up from there.
Likely, one disincentive is found in the aphorism, “you are known by the company you keep”.
Not a good look.
I recommend going to the hearing as an expert witness, abandoning decorum, and calling them all out on their ignorance and partisanship.
To give them an ounce of respect is to feed their unjustified god complex. They are to represent us; not rule over us.
Kinda maxine grillin the bankers about “student loan crisis”. Fukkin buncha morons
I see that Miss Occasional Cortex has chosen to reaffirm her membership in the National Non Sequitur Society, the motto of which is “We don’t make sense, which is why we love pizza.”