It is. From 2014-2019 I worked on a road maintenance crew that including driving plows, tankers and stuff like that. That’s why I have the license. But I purposely came back to tolls because it didn’t pay all that much less and the job is 100X easier. That is if you consider 85k a year to 65k a year not all that much less.
As much as I do my current job for society.
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People seem to be reacting well.
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I totally understand the trade off of time and/or effort vs. money. Life is just too short. Anyway, thanks!
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Well, I was planning on driving east to see my mother, who I haven’t been able to see since Covid began. No telling how long she has left, she isn’t well. But glad it’s no big deal to you.
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Regulate it not be connected to the internet.
I had to Google since a link wasn’t provided. I found a Forbes article but it only listed the pause on drilling leases on public lands as an example of an attack.
As I have said innumerable times on this board, most drilling is done on private lands so the impact is limited. Add in the high count of DUC wells which don’t require a permit to complete, I am skeptical of any impact. If the moratorium lasted a few years, then maybe, but I doubt it will.
an article written by an oil company lobbiest who has spent decades working for oil and gas companies… hardly an independent analysis…
David has enjoyed a 39-year career in the oil and gas industry, the last 23 years of which were spent in the public policy arena, managing regulatory and legislative issues for various companies, including Burlington Resources, Shell, El Paso Corporation, FTI Consulting and LINN Energy. During this time, David has led numerous industry-wide efforts to address a variety of issues at the local, state and federal level, and from April 2010 through June 2012, he served as the Texas State Lead for America’s Natural Gas Alliance
Why? It was their offices that were hit with ransomware and they chose to shut down the pipeline. It’s not the pipeline itself we’re attacked.
It does bring up a good point in that so, so many industrial controls on the IoT have minimal to non existent security, but that would cost companies more money so
So take businesses off the internet?
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My understanding is, the office was connected to the pipeline, one extra intermediate step doesn’t mean it’s isolated from the internet.
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Imagine that…he understands the business.
Biden does not.
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Long term solution is of course to decentralize the grid but I seriously doubt government will allow that to happen. One more good reason it’s time to switch to solar.
what could biden have done… you still havent answered.
To be clear - you are suggesting a federal regulation that requires pipeline control systems to be air-gapped from the public internet?
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He hamstrung the industry and ignored security.
To busy spending trillions so people will like him.
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Woops! This a free market failure.
Apparently Colonial had some pretty bad security and no contingency planning. They’re not sharing info with the government and the FBI only got involved because a 3rd party vendor reached out to them.
Maybe having so much of the country’s fuel supply is too critical of infrastructure to be entrusted into one company’s hands, a company that doesn’t appear to have much in the way of online security or security planning. Time to nationalize gasoline distribution, much too important to leave to the impulses of the unreliable free market.
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The pipeline was not attacked. The office was, and apparently Colonial has some pretty ■■■■ security.
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Well, as @zantax said before, Colonial’s regulation systems wasn’t air-gapped, and it’s Biden’s fault, somehow.
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