Reply #3: You know, every couple of years in Alaska [View All]

[mikeytherat]

some drunk with a rifle pops a cap into the Trans-Alaska pipeline and brings all oil flow to a halt for days while the pipe is fixed and the mess cleaned up.

I repeat: One guy, with one high-powered rifle, can damage a major pipeline, stopping oil flow (at least temporarily).

Now imagine you've got a country full of guys with AKs and bombs, guys who worked in the industry and know which pipes are the "hot" ones, guys who are pissed off at us, at their rivals, at just about anything and everything. Remember, they don't have to be experts, they could be the oil industry equivalent of Homer Simpson. Homer may not know about isotopes or control rods or an "unrequested fission surplus", but he knows if Pipe X is damaged, bad things happen. So do these guys.

Yep. NO ONE could have seen this coming...

mikey_the_rat