What if the pipeline hack is used to shut down refineries and sends gas to over $10 per gallon? People are outraged, and the hackers are tracked back to Ukraine and the US authorizes war operations as revenge and also take out all evidence of Biden family corruption in attacks.
It’s a super basic theory but may not be outrageous.
Thoughts/comments??
Something to keep in mind (from a military point of view).
When the SHTF... the 1st thing you want to do is LIMIT MOBILITY. No gasoline (or restricted, rationed gasoline) = inability for people to move around freely from one area to another. Populations are fixed in place. You don't need to expend tens of thousands of soldiers to control highway traffic... if there basically isn't any.
East Coast will have a Gasoline Shortage. Watch to see if something similar happens on the West Coast. If so... it may be the prelude to the bigger action to come.
Entirely possible. Would also skyrocket the price of air travel ... in fact, the price of everything will go up due to transportation costs.
Air travel is easily controlled. In SHTF, they can cancel everything except emergency, medical or necessary flights. They can also cancel or control bus and train travel.
The most difficult thing to control is individual vehicles. If you simply raise gasoline prices, those who want to move about badly enough will still get gasoline. However, if it's NOT available, service stations along highways are shut down, you are on rationing system... then people can't realistically travel.
How far can you drive on 10 gallons of gasoline when there are no gas stations along the highways... and you don't get authorization for another 10 gallons until next week? Pretty much limits driving to just a local store and back, or maybe within a mile or two from home.
First thing I would do if I wanted to control a population for SHTF... is shut down the gasoline supply except for emergency, police or military vehicles.
Trump said in one of his recent speeches that the price of gas would soar to prices we've never seen before. This could surely be the catalyst for that to happen. It also plays into the green new deal's plan to try and do away with gas powered anything...whatever the reason for this pipeline hack, it's bad for Americans. If it's a white hat attack, we suffer because the upside is too far down the road. If it's a black hat attack, we suffer for all the reasons we already know and the reasons we haven't even thought of yet.
Also for use in encouraging people to buy electric vehicles to increase single point of control/failure through the grid. EVs are not a good idea IMHO.
I hope so.
The Powderkeg is already primed and people are ready to blow.
If whitehats wait any longer, pressure is gonna build and there is gonna be far more collateral damage than any Revolution will want to be known for.
I think much more to follow, i see this as follow-up from the words of dickless Klaus Schwab (he's 'preparing' or better programming masses about a big cyber attack since some time), and won't be the last target, i think soon we'll see major breaches in crypto world and security / healthcare
This is entirely possible
It could of have been the other way around where the white hats shut down the pipeline to install overriding software used when the NWO (Energy Interests that run the world) decide to get nasty and burn the house down.
Can someone explain to me why they can't manually override pumps and valves?
Because we have moved all of our control systems to computers and electrically controlled actuators.. If we really had to we could remove the automatic actuators on every valve, replace them with wheel valves, and station people , with communication devices, at each valve, and have them controlled manually. Would be a giant undertaking. We are talking about thousands of valves on the most simple systems. Our systems are extreamly complicated because automation made it so easy to be complicated . Going back would be extremely hard. And the pipelines are just the transport side of things . Remember the oil or gas has to be taken out of the ground, transported to refineries, compressed and transported again to other refineries, transported again to our homes and gas stations. All of it is run by computer. And a relitively small force of skilled workers. The real threat is in our electric grid. Electricity runs everything else. And that to is controlled by computer systems. Welcome to my world!
Manual overrides are always part of the design, especially after the Y2000 scare when it was understood that humans always need to be in the loop. This is what makes me think the whole pipeline hack is bogus.
I work with computer automated pumps and valves. I also worked in the power industry at one point. There is always a way to shutdown and override.
Nowadays nothing seems outrageous. 5D checkers