Operating a petroleum products pipeline is a complex operation. The pipelines ship batches of at least three grades of gasoline and batches of jet fuel and diesel fuel.
This is a major wakeup call as to how vulnerable our infrastructure is to hacking.
Our Election System is also vulnerable because of its reliance on computers and the media and the politicians keeps telling us: "There is no evidence".
Well, folks we know have hard evidence of our infrastructure vulnerabilities.
The Biden Administration, understandably, figured that Americans were TOO DUMB to figure out that knocking out 45% of the gasoline supply might just cause disruptions.
They probably figured that with Common Core now engrained in the Northeast, no one would catch on, and panic buy. They were right...and they managed to stretch the supply for a couple of extra days, but it’s now game over. Next stop, with this administration: price controls and gas lines.
So, for others here who still have access to gasoline, you may just want to FILL UP NOW!!!! It’s not going to get any better until the pipeline starts operating again.
This is going to be like the TP thing. Everyone hording is going to increase the problem.
That reminds me...I need to fill up all my gas cans. :)
Data/program hijacking is so yesteryear. Any company that does not have it’s infrastructure “hack proof” needs to have their wazoos handed to them.
President Trump to be blamed in 3, 2, 1....
More like it’s a major wakeup call for companies that won’t pay to keep their IT up to date and hire good IT personnel. Giant enterprises like Colonial rarely upgrade, requests to improve security are usually rejected, then they sit around with Shocked Pikachu Face when their Windows 2000 servers get hacked and their inadequate backup precautions render them prostrate before ransomware.
This should never have happened - modern enterprise IT standards would have made this, at worst, a nuke-and-pave restore to get basic functionality back in hours. Every exec that denied needed upgrades should be fired, and if their IT leadership wasn’t screaming for upgrades and backups, they need to go as well.
Should the ransom be paid? George Washington and John Adams paid the Barbary pirates...
This is intentional to bring down the already fractured supply chain. You have a Resident in the White House who is nothing more a clown for our enemies.
The CIO of Colonial Pipeline:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariemouchet/
She has an education degree...
“Unrestricted Warfare,” authored by Colonel Qiao Liang and Colonel Wang Xiangsui of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 1999, spelled out pretty clearly what is likely happening in our country. Asymmetrical warfare.
“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.
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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.
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.
No crisis should be wasted as the Marxists say. Watch for the Biden cabal to use this as a reason to boost gas prices and push electric cars. Don’t think for a minute that the Biden cabal will do anything to secure our vital pipeline system...remember Biden’s first executive order on Inauguration Day was to kill the mostly completed Keystone XL pipeline.
Mr. GG2 filled my car up yesterday at $3.14 per gallon. I’m sure sure the gas is gone by now. He’s out hunting diesel for his monster Dodge Ram 2500.
And your surprised, this has been a time bomb waiting to go off for years and the government and private corporations did nothing to be prepared so that their systems would not get hacked. What did they do, well they went to the Cloud which is even worse. And what are they doing about it, sitting on their thumbs.
So we got what we deserve because of gross stupidity.
In the meantime, Colonial Pipe's website hacked as well as it's pipes:
It happens when disruption and when it’s hyped by media - just like w/this viirus issue they stir up the people to create panic and panic buying, creating the lines etc etc.
But focus on this latest crisis while they slip through more bills, EO’s and the like to steal more tax payer monies for their purposes.
Nothing is coincidence, all happens because of reasons, and for reasons.
Wow this seems to have happed after Biden visited Carter famous for odd even gas days
Conspiracy thought of the day, there was no overseas Hackett, this was internal by Biden and fauci to keep people home so they can claim that they stopped a second wave of the pandemic and make people dependent on government handouts because this shortage will slow the economy again and Biden will give money away to make himself look good
GasBuddy website down
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