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Oil pipelines are the weak spots of the carbon fossil fuel system. Anyone can create a drone that hits these widely visible targets. And due to there size they can not be protected. I expect them to be the targets of militant global warming protestors drones soon.

Which is why this sytem will die with a whimper from being financially no longer viable in the short run in a deglobalizing world.

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There's a book about this called "How to Blow up a Pipeline".

One interesting factoid in it was how much this tactic has already been used in the middle east.

Thanks. Are you by any chance a in a relation ship with a culture in special circumstances?

PS: Its not even something you have to be "active" or there to do. Park a explosive drone with a solar panel and starlink reception somewhere within reach, have software monitor the oil price dipping and the drone starts and attacks the pipeline if the mersenne twister gives in. One guy could do it and destroy a whole pipeline system.

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