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Gas shortages spread to more states
« on: May 12, 2021, 08:52:08 pm »
Gas shortages spread to more states
By Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk - 05/12/21 04:00 PM EDT

More states in the Southeast are facing major gasoline shortages and long lines at the pump as the Colonial Pipeline shutdown stretches into a fifth day.

On Wednesday afternoon, 65 percent of gas stations in North Carolina, 44 percent of stations in Virginia and 43 percent of stations in both Georgia and South Carolina were out of fuel, according to the gas price website GasBuddy.

Other states are reporting fewer shortfalls, with 16 percent of stations in Tennessee, 11 percent of stations in Florida and Maryland and 7 percent of stations in Alabama said they were dry.

Analysts say the shortages are largely caused by panic buying as people fear they may not be able to fill up their vehicles in the coming days.

“It’s surprising how quickly the situation has escalated or deteriorated into this,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy told The Hill. “At this point, the hoarding has become the problem, it’s not the Colonial Pipeline.”

“The system’s just not built for this intense, short-lived, exceedingly rare amount of demand,” he said, noting that demand in five states was up by 40 percent by Monday.

Cities are bearing the brunt of the outages, De Haan said, with Atlanta and Raleigh among the hardest hit. Rural areas, meanwhile, have fared somewhat better.

Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service, said the overall chaos is reminiscent of when Americans were frantically buying toilet paper at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, creating widespread shortages as lockdowns were imposed.

“To me, this is like the toilet paper problem,” he said. “People observe the behavior and they feel it’s incumbent upon them to load up their tanks.”

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Re: Gas shortages spread to more states
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2021, 09:08:34 pm »
From energy independence to runs on gas stations for what fuel is left.
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Re: Gas shortages spread to more states
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2021, 09:12:37 pm »
From energy independence to runs on gas stations for what fuel is left.
Just.
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Re: Gas shortages spread to more states
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2021, 12:07:10 am »
Is there any report of a tank farm running out of gas?  Stations are supplied by tank farms, not by pipelines.
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