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Re:The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, Shutdown to Make Sure Its... by mannykannot on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:08AM (#27193582)
When all parties are losing a bunch of money on acount of the shutdown, the rational choice would be to accept some lesser risk than these known losses in order to get things working to some degree, if that were technically feasible.
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Re:The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, Shutdown to Make Sure Its... by sam0x17 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @02:56PM (#27212837)
It shouldn't even be up to them to make a rational choice. It should be required via federal regulation on utilities.
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