This may really be a big deal.
I’m watching CNBC and the market analysts seem nervous.
They say troops can’t get to the area and there are hundreds more miles of pipelines that could be attacked. Iraqs oil revenues have increased to far more than we are spending on the war and that could simply stop if the insurgents continue with this tactic. Apparently a single IED can take out one of the two main pipelines and they are setting off dozens a day in other places.
It’s too bad that those pipelines were never buried.
As it is now, driving up to an elevated pipeline, placing a bomb under a length of pipe and speeding away just couldn’t be any easier.
I wonder why no one has ever thought to bury those pipelines under berms made of sand. That seems to me burying the pipelines could be a really good “public works” project that would have the additional benefit of reducing the unemployment rate among Iraq’s semi-skilled workers.
Hmmm...
Could there be a shortage of sand in Iraq?