This is why I seriously consider running for office some times
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.