Is pipeline strategically safe?

[rupol2000]

The pipelines, it seems to me, are very vulnerable to artillery, aviation and submarine attacks. Thus, it is very easy to destroy the enemy's energy structure without even penetrating into his territory. Shipping by tankers and transport delivery seems to be safer, how do you think?

 

[rupol2000]

With regard to power lines, there is a similar problem, but electricity is easily provided by generators, there would be fuel.

 

[HenryBHough]

No question.

In the interest of national security all pipelines and power lines should be immediately shut down.

Only by being frozen to death in darkness can America can find safety. But even then, only if you have been triple-vaccinated against.........liberal power grabs.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Why do trains carrying oil keep blowing up?

Millions of gallons of crude oil are being shipped across the country in "the Ford Pinto of rail cars."

www.motherjones.com

You have Warren Buffet's approval. He owns them^.

 

[The Irish Ram]

The Chinese can shut down our power grid and anything that uses their chips. We have Biden for our leader.
They win.

 

[rupol2000]

The Chinese can shut down our power grid and anything that uses their chips. We have Biden for our leader.
They win.

Chinese electronics are powered by American chips

 

[The Irish Ram]

70% of our electric comes from Chinese transformers. Transformer that have been found to have a back door ability to be hacked by China. Trump banned them. Biden unbanned them.
That is how stupid we are. We elected China to run our lives.

 

[rupol2000]

70% of our electric comes from Chinese transformers

across the ocean?

 

[Mr Natural]

Back in the good old days when St Trumpy was running things, everything was made here in America.

 

[The Irish Ram]

across the ocean?

No, here:
Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials had seized a Chinese-built transformer they suspected had been secret capabilities that could allow distant adversaries to monitor or even disable it. Cybersecurity expert Joseph Weiss told the Journal that officials had found “electronics that should not have been part of the transformer (i.e., hardware back doors) that could secretly allow the Chinese to gain effective control of the transformers.” Weiss added that as far back as 2001, China was caught trying to hack into a U.S. grid in California. He further contends that the Russians have been “in” the U.S. grid since 2014.

Recognizing this threat, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13929, declaring a national emergency with respect to the nation’s electric grid and prohibiting the acquisition or installation of “any bulk-power electric equipment designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied, by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction of such foreign adversaries.” In addition to China and Russia, the order identified North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela as “foreign adversaries.”

The order was a shrewd and timely response to a growing threat. Unfortunately, that Executive Order has now been suspended.

Xiden will do anything the Chinese want. They have made his family very rich for a reason. Access is the reason.

 

[rupol2000]

No, here:
Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials had seized a Chinese-built transformer they suspected had been secret capabilities that could allow distant adversaries to monitor or even disable it. Cybersecurity expert Joseph Weiss told the Journal that officials had found “electronics that should not have been part of the transformer (i.e., hardware back doors) that could secretly allow the Chinese to gain effective control of the transformers.” Weiss added that as far back as 2001, China was caught trying to hack into a U.S. grid in California. He further contends that the Russians have been “in” the U.S. grid since 2014.

Recognizing this threat, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13929, declaring a national emergency with respect to the nation’s electric grid and prohibiting the acquisition or installation of “any bulk-power electric equipment designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied, by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction of such foreign adversaries.” In addition to China and Russia, the order identified North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela as “foreign adversaries.”

The order was a shrewd and timely response to a growing threat. Unfortunately, that Executive Order has now been suspended.

Xiden will do anything the Chinese want. They have made his family very rich for a reason. Access is the reason.

It looks like some kind of clownery. I think that even if the transformer could be disconnected by the electronics, it can be put into manual mode, it is not such a complex device to be dependent on electronics.
Trump is the left idiot who pretended to be right.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Trump understood energy independence. Pipelines work.
Begging OPEC, not so much...

 

[surada]

No, here:
Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials had seized a Chinese-built transformer they suspected had been secret capabilities that could allow distant adversaries to monitor or even disable it. Cybersecurity expert Joseph Weiss told the Journal that officials had found “electronics that should not have been part of the transformer (i.e., hardware back doors) that could secretly allow the Chinese to gain effective control of the transformers.” Weiss added that as far back as 2001, China was caught trying to hack into a U.S. grid in California. He further contends that the Russians have been “in” the U.S. grid since 2014.

Recognizing this threat, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13929, declaring a national emergency with respect to the nation’s electric grid and prohibiting the acquisition or installation of “any bulk-power electric equipment designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied, by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction of such foreign adversaries.” In addition to China and Russia, the order identified North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela as “foreign adversaries.”

The order was a shrewd and timely response to a growing threat. Unfortunately, that Executive Order has now been suspended.

Xiden will do anything the Chinese want. They have made his family very rich for a reason. Access is the reason.

Keystone XL only benefitted the Chinese.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Keystone XL only benefitted the Chinese.

We were energy independent thanks to our last president, and begging for oil with the present president.
I guess you don't remember benefiting from a wealth of oil and gas. I remember $1.76 a gallon for gas. What was the lowest you paid for gas under trump? What are you paying now?
And heating your home? How funny do you think a 50% rise in that cost is?
You have an odd sense of humor.

 

[surada]

We were energy independent thanks to our last president, and begging for oil with the present president.
I guess you don't remember benefiting from a wealth of oil and gas. I remember $1.76 a gallon for gas. What was the lowest you paid for gas under trump? What are you paying now?
And heating your home? How funny do you think a 50% rise in that cost is?
You have an odd sense of humor.

We have never been energy independent.. During 2020 we only imported 5 million bpd.. Before were were importing 8 million bpd .. like we are now. Trump's lies are not facts. He is fact free .. always has been.

 

[rupol2000]

We have never been energy independent.. During 2020 we only imported 5 million bpd.. Before were were importing 8 million bpd .. like we are now. Trump's lies are not facts. He is fact free .. always has been.

In the military sense, the United States is energy independent, it produces about half of the oil consumed and has a reserve. In a military sense, that should be enough.

 

[The Irish Ram]

We were even exporting oil. Do you really feel $4.00 a gallon for gas is better than $2.00 gas? Trump must have been doing something right. Beats begging for it, don't you think?

OPEC Says To Biden: If You Want More Oil, Pump It Yourself

Biden is walking a difficult tightrope. While he wants to commit to fighting climate change, he risks placing himself in an untenable economic and geopolitical position.

www.forbes.com

China told Biden to eat shit too.

But, giving Russia a pipeline was a real feather in Biden's cap though, don't ya think?
Maybe we could capture his farts and use them to produce energy...

 

[The Irish Ram]

In the military sense, the United States is energy independent, it produces about half of the oil consumed and has a reserve. In a military sense, that should be enough.

In better days. Now, Biden is whipping through our reserves, and regulating our production, strangling the companies here, while telling other countries to drill, drill, drill some more, pretty please?

 

[whitehall]

Yeah right, mid west oil pipelines are vulnerable to submarine attack while oil tankers are pretty safe.