I struggle to understand why there isn't a manual override in place for the gas pipeline.

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4. There absolutely is

All these pumps can be operated manually.

However, training and hiring a few hundred people on how to do it safely is impossible to do in a day or two.

Plus they have to get these newly hired and trained people out to all the locations along the hundreds of miles of pipeline and stay there 24x7.

And if one of these newly hired/trained makes a mistake and spills millions of gallons of gasoline, can you imagine how angry you would be?

This CAN be ran manually. But the logistics to set it up takes weeks or months and comes with a huge risk.