•  Cegorach   ( @DAT@feddit.de ) 
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    7011 months ago

    “Of the 3000 cars onboard, 25 are electric and one of those has apparently set light to the whole cargo”

    BULLSHIT!

    Nobody said so.

    But “journalists” nowadays are full of shit and all reporting “currently there’s no proof that some electric car started the fire” (always with #electriccars) - what everyone reads as “yeah, sure the electric car was it!”

    meanwhile electric cars are actually LESS likely to start a fire and still nobody in the know has actually claimed electric cars had ANYTHING to do with it.

    •  mondoman712   ( @mondoman712@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      5411 months ago

      The article linked in the post says:

      A spokesman for the Coast Guard said earlier today that the fire is believed to have started in one of the electric cars. Later in the evening, the Coast Guard said that nothing is yet known about the cause.

      So yeah they aren’t sure but it’s coming from the coast guard not the journalist.

      •  Cegorach   ( @DAT@feddit.de ) 
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        4811 months ago

        Other people actually reported that coast guard not only responded with “we don’t know anything yet”, but also with “nobody of us would have told you a cause and we don’t know who did”

        I’ve not seen any proof apart from wild speculation by owner/journalists yet.

        And yes, the owner too pointed at electric cars - but neither people on board nor anybody near the ship was telling about that. So I’d guess that’s just repeating headlines too.

        My point was: don’t claim “maybe it was electric cars”! because people don’t understand “maybe”

    • because it’s impossible that the other 3000 cars filled with an explosive liquid could have ignited the fire. No, it’s definitely impossible, those fuel tanks never leak, and gas vapor never explode