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Frankly, you seem to lack knowledge here. Your example of a grocery store is B2C with no knowledge of the customers. The pipeline is B2B with legal contracts in

Frankly, you seem to lack knowledge here. Your example of a grocery store is B2C with no knowledge of the customers. The pipeline is B2B with legal contracts in place and use invoices. You can order dozens of types of oil through the pipeline. With travel distances of thousands of miles, many destinations, and the need for product segregation, the pipeline knows where all the oil is going. If they couldn’t track segregation and destinations in the pipeline, that is a good reason to shut down. If they were just going to be delayed in sending out invoices or had to input some items into the system manually after recovery, they most definitely should not have shut down.

croutonwagon 5y ago
>If they couldn’t track segregation and destinations in the pipeline, that is a good reason to shut down. Wouldnt that then conceded the pipeline was not fine? >If they were just going to be delayed in sending out invoices or had to input some items into the system manually after recovery, they most definitely should not have shut down. I am willing to bet a signifigant number of "customers" (businesses in this case with teams of lawyers) would challenge the vailidity of invoices based on estimates and not actual usage. Theres no free lunch, the pipeline owners understand this and decided its in the best interest for their company to stop deliveries until the system that manages their order tracking is back online. Thats totally reasonable. The US government (and states for that matter) made 0 guarantees of coverage of any thing. And even if they did, its not like the government does much to make anything a straightforward process.
Rastonbury 5y ago
> The pipeline is B2B with legal contracts in place and use invoices. What if billing is tied to metered usage and it was impossible to meter? Or what if the billing system is needed to shut off access when customer has reached a quota? The article is scant on details but "legal contracts and invoices" are not going to save a company legal fees with when multiple customers dispute their bills.
crispyambulance 5y ago
It's understandable why they would shut it down temporarily if they could no longer accurately bill customers for usage. At some point, however, it starts impacting the economy and there would have to measures in place to get the fuel going regardless of whether the corporate bean-counters (and their malware infested computers) were fully "ready". I don't know what that point in time should be. But the fact that there were news stories of imbeciles hoarding gasoline and emptying fully loaded gas stations within a couple of hours certainly makes it urgent to get the pipeline running sooner. Can't we all just get along?

croutonwagon 5y ago

>If they couldn’t track segregation and destinations in the pipeline, that is a good reason to shut down. Wouldnt that then conceded the pipeline was not fine? >If they were just going to be delayed in sending out invoices or had to input some items into the system manually after recovery, they most definitely should not have shut down. I am willing to bet a signifigant number of "customers" (businesses in this case with teams of lawyers) would challenge the vailidity of invoices based on estimates and not actual usage. Theres no free lunch, the pipeline owners understand this and decided its in the best interest for their company to stop deliveries until the system that manages their order tracking is back online. Thats totally reasonable. The US government (and states for that matter) made 0 guarantees of coverage of any thing. And even if they did, its not like the government does much to make anything a straightforward process.

Rastonbury 5y ago

> The pipeline is B2B with legal contracts in place and use invoices. What if billing is tied to metered usage and it was impossible to meter? Or what if the billing system is needed to shut off access when customer has reached a quota? The article is scant on details but "legal contracts and invoices" are not going to save a company legal fees with when multiple customers dispute their bills.

crispyambulance 5y ago

It's understandable why they would shut it down temporarily if they could no longer accurately bill customers for usage. At some point, however, it starts impacting the economy and there would have to measures in place to get the fuel going regardless of whether the corporate bean-counters (and their malware infested computers) were fully "ready". I don't know what that point in time should be. But the fact that there were news stories of imbeciles hoarding gasoline and emptying fully loaded gas stations within a couple of hours certainly makes it urgent to get the pipeline running sooner. Can't we all just get along?