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posted by martyb on Monday September 19 2016, @09:12AM   Printer-friendly

The Colonial Pipeline spill has caused 6 states (Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina) to declare a state of emergency. Gasoline (petrol) prices on the east coast are likely to spike. Yet, most puzzling is how this vast emergency and its likely effect on cost of living has gone unnoticed by mainstream media outlets. The pipeline is owned by Koch Industries: is this why the media is silent?

[Are there any Soylentils in the affected area who can corroborate this story? Have you heard of the spill, seen long gas lines, or any price gouging? -Ed.]


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @12:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @12:21PM (#403691)

    > Pipeline failures and government taxes for energy will never bother you again.

    Nice idea to be resilient for your transportation needs (could also be accomplished by a bicycle with a basket, in many areas), but far from resilient in general. This will become apparent if the pipeline failure is diesel fuel and trucks stop running in your area. Watch how quickly the store shelves empty out.

    In general this thing we call "civilization" is a pretty thin veneer which takes a lot of infrastructure to maintain.

    One example, a friend worked at a local oil refinery which also included a number of huge storage tanks. The amount of finished fuels in the tank farm went from nearly full to nearly empty at least once a week, there was very little buffer. (have forgotten exact details, the time scale might be every day or two?)

    Nevil Shute wrote about the rapid decline in services and rapid increase in gouging in the London area, during the early days of bombing in WWII, "What Happened to the Corbetts" (available through Gutenberg in some countries). At that time, England was fairly resilient with many small family farms able to absorb some of the people that left London and other cities.

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