How would the US Government defend coastal oil refineries from cruise missile attack?
Wargame this idea
Nolan Walker
Christian Green
Are there measures that can be taken to limit damage like not storing petroleum products in every tank?
Ryan Jones
How will cruise missiles be launched if their platforms are melted by nuclear fire?
Daniel Cox
The measures involve sending in Hosea, and Hoseb to put the fires out
Owen Young
>Glass em
Noah Ortiz
No we have lesbians now.
Gabriel Morgan
How would the US government defend water treatment plants having the filtration unit compromised and adding lethal levels of chloramine/fluoride?
Carson Hernandez
Colonel Liu predicted the most effective response would be to strike civil infrastructure in the United States during a conflict.
Nicholas Young
if you're willing to go scorched earth, the contingent infrastructure (that's taken for granted) is the best way to inflict real damage and chaos
but that's a go-for-the-throat sort of thing
Anthony Butler
America hasn't been slapped in the face for a long time.
Samuel Hughes
No, seriously.
Aaron Butler
Using AEW&C aircraft to detect incoming missiles and using a combination of fighter jets and naval ships to intercept incoming missiles.
I don't know where the US' petroleum stores are but the best defence is making use of the geography, many dispersed stores far in-land make them fairly safe from any possible attack.
Xavier Jenkins
We have 714 million barrels of space in the SPR caverns. We have thousands and thousands of active oil and gas wells pumping 24/7 right now. We have huge reserves in the Permian, Bakken and DJ to name just a few. We have hundreds of drilling rigs and the ones that are currently “stacked”, we have the ability to put them into active service within the amount of time it takes to get the manpower. We aren’t in trouble. The only thing causing crazy prices is speculation. And partly from Biden always threatening the oil and gas industry in this country.
Dylan Bell
If oil production is crippled and electricity distribution goes down for a extended period the cities will burn.
Christian Foster
Asexual OP has made a good point. The largest most important refineries are located along the California, Texas, and eastern coasts. You don't need to hit the storage tanks, just the main refining works. If the main refinery works go down it does not matter how much oil you produce, you cant refine it. It is one major way for China or Russia to attack and cripple the US using only convential weapons.
John Rodriguez
The West Coast has a lot of defense contractors too.
Austin Fisher
This is my view, looks like I'm gonna die.
Lincoln James
Silicon valley semiconductor research laboratories could be lost with the skilled people.
Alexander Thomas
You're not that close.
Kevin Gray
Almost.
Nathan Cooper
That’s Bellingham right?
Blake Walker
Anacortes refinery. Big one. Bellingham has Cherry Point.
Matthew Ross
Are there any inland petroleum refineries?