Posted on 05/11/2021 5:46:06 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
This is crazy. I stopped for gas just now having no idea what was happening. It’s out. People here told me they’d been to other stations and found the same. pic.twitter.com/7LDVdUXPo4
“”Regs regarding making trucking an option to the pipeline.”””
Trucking is not an option to replace a pipeline that can ship 2.5 million barrels per day.
There are not enough tanker trucks sitting idle waiting for such a calamity to happen.
One tanker truck can hold 200+ barrels of product.
I will leave it to the mathematicians to calculate how many trucks would be needed to transport 2.5 million barrels per day from Houston and Louisiana refineries to the East Coast.
Waiting for Biden to proclaim that electric-powered vehicles are the solution.
“Operating a petroleum products pipeline is a complex operation.”
I’ll buy that but a lot of the complexity must be to save money. That’s laudable, but how about a less complex, more expensive, more reliable, more low-tech way of running the pipelines.
Actually, the nude pics are often not clicked on because people have become aware of that being a vector. Some still do, of course.
These days, the most common vector is Mabel or Edna clicking on a blatant phishing attempt or going to look up recipes or clicking on an infected chain letter link that one of their idiot friends sent.
100% correct.
Airgaps were effective at blocking remote take-over of Iran's centrifuges. That's the problem Colonial Pipeline faces today.
Where Stuxnet succeeded was in having intricate knowledge of the firmware and code the centrifuges were running and designing specific code/malware that could be injected easily and remain undetected until it was too late. That still required a physical presence at a network point or the hardware itself to inject it. That physical presence required spies/Israeli agents/some other actor.
We're talking two different kinds of intrusion here and they're not an apples to apples comparison.
The majority of intelligent posters disappeared years ago.
Sigh ... I try and remain optimistic.
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Democrats wanted high gasoline prices in the past, as I recall.
Fuel shortages will further fan the social fires they’ve ignited.
They want civil war. Then, they can institute martial law and grab full control over us — their dream.
If Colonial cannot get the pipeline operating soon, expect to see some big rigs sitting.
Eventually everything comes by truck. Remember that when they can't get gas or diesel.
The ransomewere can only hold data ransome. Operations can be restored by restarting the systems from a clean backup.
This is an intentional government operation.
80% of modern pipeline flow would go away then. Computers and high tech are needed for safety and speed. Failing that, you’re looking at *hours* between product changes instead of minutes and you’d have to hope Joe the Drunken Former UAW Worker was sober enough to turn the wheel on the diverter knob all the way.
Excellent post. Exactly what systems were breached? Was it strictly financial data that got jacked? If so they must have backups.
Was it the process control systems? Are there not separate redundant systems? This is a major fail by what is suppose to be a top tier infrastructure.
It’s not like this company, Colonial, did not know the risks. If Congress were not so incompetent, there should investigate what happened. But then again, have you seen the members of congress? My dog is smarter than most of them.
I am NOT in IT...and I’ve questioned the loading of software to “clouds” for years
Ah, no. That’s just it. Colonial doesn’t *have* backups from what I’m hearing. They cheaped out.
Hammer meet nail.
This isn’t a cloud problem. This is an idiot problem.
Or with crooks stealing an election.
“””It’s being reported that they move 100M/gal a day.....”””
And 42 gallons equals one barrel of petroleum.
The 42 gallon barrel is a petroleum industry holdover from the past when horse drawn wagons hauled 42 gallon wooden barrels from the wells to a refinery.
May turn out to be the post of the day.
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