Loading ...energy infrastructure and its vulnerability have been a concern of mine for quite some time. i spent a lot of my working life around the energy industry. many of our installations are located within sight of interstate highways, and vulnerable to a drive-by by a bunch of nogoodniks in a van with a sunroof. here’s a nightmare scenario:
three jihadis in a vw bus with a sunroof. driver, gunner, and loader. as they slowly pass a refinery, the gunner opens the sunroof, stands up, and fires a spread of rpg inceniaary grenades into the facility as fast as the loader can feed them into the tube.
the roads between houston and lake charles are lined with refineries, pipelines, pumping stations, and tank farms – all of which are full of volatile, flamable hydrocarbons. the exxon refinery in baton rouge is in sight from the top of the mississippi bridge. the richmond refinery sits on a bluff above the east bay expressway, etc… etc…
this scenario uses twenty five year old technology. i’m sure lots of advances in nasty hardware have been developed in the last twenty-thirty years.
