Posted on 01/18/2015 6:52:36 PM PST by thackney
mexico isnt a country
You know it is 2015 now, right?
Drilled ILLEGAL taps? So are there legal taps in the pipeline? Hey Pedro, we are out of gas. Let’s go here and fill up at the pipeline for FREE!
Yes. Every meter station, distribution point, etc is a legal tap on the pipeline.
They aren’t illegal taps, they’re just undocumented.
An ideal application for drones.
“Never heard of a hot tap? It is done all the time, nothing to it if you have the right equipment.”
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Now you’re talking about professional quality tapping of the pipelines with proper equipment. That may be what’s happening sometimes in Mexico but I suspect a good number of the illegal taps are being done by strict amateurs without the right equipment. But I could be wrong.
“They aren’t illegal taps, they’re just undocumented.”
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Maybe some of the taps have Mexican Consular ID cards.
Telephone line was interrupted—there was supposed to be a /s tag before the horizontal rule
You win the thread.
Contrary to popular belief, there are many skilled craftsman in Mexico, welders, fitters etc. It is not all 3rd world down there.
In which case they should be entitled to free healthcare, education, food stamps, housing vouchers, clothing vouchers, transportation vouchers, cell phones and welfare.
A few years ago my employer passed around a "safety moment" discussing the dangers of tapping into pipelines.
The photos showed a village in Africa where the people had tapped into a line.
The whole village was there at the pipe, with buckets, when it ignited.
Everyone in town died, over a hundred people, and the photos showed nothing but a field of bleached bones, such was the heat of the fire. No meat was left.
I know it happens frequently.
I just cannot comprehend risking my life that way.
Over 200 people killed in Nigerian pipeline blast - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/world/africa/26iht-pipeline.4017346.html
Witnesses said thieves had broken into the pipeline after midnight and hundreds of men, women and children had been collecting leaking fuel in plastic buckets, cans and bags for hours before the explosion.
£1bn a month: the spiralling cost of oil theft in Nigeria
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/06/oil-theft-costs-nigeria
It all adds up to organised crime stealing oil using the cover of the authorities, he says. “Why was a massive barge able to hold 10,000 barrels of oil being loaded at 2am with crude? Why did another catch fire? Why were excavators there? Why were local observers arrested the next day, their cameras confiscated and memory cards destroyed?
Happened all the time in Iraq, with or without the right equipment. Any pipeline section without 24/7 overwatch was tapped.
How can they possibly know what will happen 89 years into the future?
Or is it that the Absolute Partisanship press is simply too lazy to check their work before it is published?
Heck, with these Brainiacs, I bet they were smoking cigarettes while collecting the fuel.
I completely missed what __rvx86 was commenting on when he point that out to me.
Dangers of speed reading...
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