(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    Don’t blow up the pipeline, that’ll pollute the environment! Go for the pumping infrastructure, if you can knock out a pump you can decrease or even completely stop the flow of oil.

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      6 days ago

      id guess pumps are more expensive to fix too. but also probably better guarded.

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        5 days ago

        eh, I don’t think that’s gonna make much of a difference:

        most of the cost is probably lost revenue from the stopped flow, not the pump itself!

        that said you’re almost at the ideal target already!

        it’s best to sabotage the nexus point nearest the pipeline source: that way you knock out the largest part of the network resulting in the most damage by disabling most of the network!

        tl;dr: knock out infrastructure as close to the source as possible, that isn’t actually the source!

        (because sabotaging the source is a really, really bad idea, see: every oil spill ever)

        (and for fucks sake, don’t do any of this in winter…people might freeze, if there’s no time to come up with alternative energy sources…which is why late spring is the best time to blow up a pipeline! :D )

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        5 days ago

        “guarded” is usually a fence and some cameras, maybe a locked door. Honestly an easier target than any buried pipeline. Kind of surprising we don’t see more ELF action on this front, except for the whole ‘get sent to jail forever to make an example of you’ thing.