It would be trying to decide whether this is an irrevocable decision on the part of Pollution Control Industries, and it will also be looking at other options for disposing of the napalm. There was presumably a contract regarding the disposal. Negotiations have gone on for about two years, as I understand it. Let me point this out. Every day, some eight million barrels of gasoline are transported in this country by tank cars and by tractor trailer trucks that go into nearly every community in the nation delivering gasoline.
Gasoline is a far more volatile, dangerous product to transport than napalm is.
Napalm is much more resistant to either conflagration or to explosion than gasoline is. What we have here is one tank car of napalm carrying 12,000 pounds of napalm from a place in California to a place in Indiana. This is a carefully worked out plan by the Navy. The napalm is being carried in two special containers that are loaded onto one car. They had never planned to run entire trains of this.