The author of this article comes off as really very clueless.
Yes, in fact, if a store's computers go down they don't just let customers walk out the door with products and hope they get paid eventually?
As far as I understand colonial is basically a big gas station connected with a series of tubes. Look ma, the gas pump still works but it doesn't keep track of how much we pumped or charge us any more!
Of course they shut down if they couldn't bill?
It's being treated like some kind of greed when in reality they didn't want to give away millions of dollars of fuel they couldn't track or bill for.
The colonial pipeline was fine... except it couldn't do the thing it does which is sell gas to distributors, it could only give it away.
Sigh.
This isn't "fake news", but it is... shitty news? News which gives facts and a ridiculous analysis?
I'm still trying to find out what actually happened in Israel but god forbid a news source or commentator actually lay out the details of a complicated situation... (if you're not getting everybody pissed off about X, then you're not doing your job as a reporter?)
Yes, in fact, if a store's computers go down they don't just let customers walk out the door with products and hope they get paid eventually?
As far as I understand colonial is basically a big gas station connected with a series of tubes. Look ma, the gas pump still works but it doesn't keep track of how much we pumped or charge us any more!
Of course they shut down if they couldn't bill?
It's being treated like some kind of greed when in reality they didn't want to give away millions of dollars of fuel they couldn't track or bill for.
The colonial pipeline was fine... except it couldn't do the thing it does which is sell gas to distributors, it could only give it away.
Sigh.
This isn't "fake news", but it is... shitty news? News which gives facts and a ridiculous analysis?
I'm still trying to find out what actually happened in Israel but god forbid a news source or commentator actually lay out the details of a complicated situation... (if you're not getting everybody pissed off about X, then you're not doing your job as a reporter?)