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Five Vulnerable Nodes in the Global Energy Network
blog.wired.com — Four-dollar gas has the pushed the price of energy to the top of the American mind, but what if the pain at the pump is just a leading indicator of a much more dire energy future? Based on scenarios from US national security role playing games, a perceived supply chain disruption could drive a run on oil that would have disastrous consequences.
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- beerncheese, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Complete with satellite photos and possible attack scenarios.
"Terrorists: please don't strike these vulnerable areas. Thanks!"- bosssmiley, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Hit weak spot for massive damage (to stability of western economy).
It's reading things like this that reminds me how much of a carefully orchestrated, finely measured pyramid-balanced-on-its-tip our societies actually are. Sobering. - Hangly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1You'll notice that the terrorists who want to destroy us never go after the spots that would really hurt us.
No, criminal masterminds that they are they attacked a couple of boxy gray office buildings instead.
- bosssmiley, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Hit weak spot for massive damage (to stability of western economy).
- MarkusGarvey, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3oops!...this story just made oil go up another $2 a barrel...
- allaboutdatiki, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1... and that's why we need to get the heck off oil, ASAP ...
- Hangly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+15. The Strait of Malacca? Seriously? Whoever wrote this obviously didn't spend much time looking at a map.
Yes lots of everything passes through the Strait of Malacca, but it's not quite a vulnerable node. Even if the strait "fell" to "terrorists" (like if they filled it in with rocks maybe, I don't know) all the oil tankers would have to do would be sail a few hundred miles south so they could get around Sumatra.
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