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.