Originally Posted by
B Fraser
You don't have to hit the refinery. Fuel is useless unless you can transport it. The rail and signalling infrastructure plus key bridges are easy to sabotage at multiple points. Furthermore, you can't fix rail infrastructure if the ballast and tamping machinery is out of action. Rail systems tend to have "just enough" of that.
Probably because you would need to hit multiple bridges, roads and rail, to stop the flow out to where it was needed. roads and rail are easily repaired, its not rocket science to lift track re-ballast and replace it, pipelines too.
But hit the cracking towers and take them out means nothing and I mean nothing is going anywhere and cracking towers do not grow on trees, they are complex bits of kit, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the stuff they use was bought in from abroad. Better to hit the heart than the arteries, then everything stops.