The Government’s War on Pipelines Made Us Vulnerable to Attacks on Our Infrastructure The recent fuel disruptions show the danger in the government's long war on oil pipelines. Wednesday, May 12, 2021 There was no fuel. “I can’t believe that we’re here and can’t even get gas,” Phillips told a local TV station. “People are tired of sitting in the house and they just want to get out and try to resume something of normality with their life and they’re definitely going to need fuel and gas to do that.” Phillips was just one of thousands of people who saw their travel plans disrupted in the wake of a cyberattack on Friday targeting the Colonial Pipeline, a vital network of pipelines that run some 5,500 miles from the US Gulf Coast to New York Harbor.