Posted on 05/10/2021 9:04:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
The US government declared a state of emergency late on Sunday, lifting limits on the transport of fuels in a bid to keep gas supply lines open after the continued shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline.
“This Declaration addresses the emergency conditions creating a need for immediate transportation of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other refined petroleum products and provides necessary relief,” the Department of Transportation said. White House Press Sec Jen Psaki added that “as the Administration works to mitigate potential disruptions to supply as a result of the Colonial Pipeline incident, @USDOT is taking action today to allow flexibility for truckers in 17 states.”
Just in case the US didn’t already have a “transitory hyperinflation” problem, gasoline futures soared more than 4% – and are likely to jump much more – late on Sunday after the Colonial Pipeline announced that while some smaller lateral lines between terminals and delivery points are now operational, its mainlines (Lines 1, 2, 3 and 4) remain offline since late Friday after the company suffered a crippling cyberattack that affected its key IT systems.
Colonial operates Line 1 for gasoline and Line 2 for diesel and jet fuel from Pasadena, Texas, some 15 miles from the nation’s largest refineries, to Greensboro, North Carolina, at a combined 2.5 million barrels a day. They merge at Greensboro to feed a line carrying about 900,000 barrels a day into New York Harbor, and other East Coast pipelines.
...just after we get an admin that hates oil. Huh.
Just topped up all my vehicles.
“The lines were long and I live in Florida Panhandle!............”
YIPE!
I didn’t know about this until last night. My first thought about this was that it was a ransomware attack.
Seems to be what it is.
I believe we should be using our intelligence agencies and special forces to run these types of people down and either kill them or spirit them away to places where they can tell us all they know.
And to do this even in countries they don’t want us to do it in because the government profits from it financially, politically, or militarily.
As we see, this is a national security issue.
Whew! We was worried there for a minute. Grrrrrrr!
A cybertech expert was on RT Tv a few days ago. He said Russia does not have the expertise to do this level of hacking. He said China is behind it and helping the russian hackers.
Same with the hacking last December.
Earth is like honey badgers. IT DON’T CARE!
Is there anything that the democrats can’t screw up?
It looks like the bug owner is being refused gas because his plate ends with a 5.
“A cybertech expert was on RT Tv a few days ago. He said Russia does not have the expertise to do this level of hacking. He said China is behind it and helping the russian hackers.”
NOT SO FAST, pal. It’s PUTIN, PUTIN, PUTIN, PUTIN, he is our ENEMY (for a few more years, I think), so it’s all his fault.
Yet another “State of Emergency”.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H. L. Mencken
RE: Rationing coming right up.
Wonder if the trashy Dem voters will still gush over their idiot President.
But maybe it’s persons of color not rationed.
High social credit left leaning score no ration.
Conservative, patriot, MyPillow purchaser, registered GOP, liked Trump on old Facebook or Tweet records, history of posting on FR: no gas.
Just to help with the math a bit, 100M gallons per day, which is what this pipeline carried, requires 10,000 tanker trucks, per day to replace its flow...not to mention CERTIFIED drivers for them.
...things are going to get interesting very soon, but glad it’s happening now...we might just learn a bit from it.
> Is there anything that the democrats can’t screw up? <
Well, they’re pretty good at stealing elections.
God knows what they'll do under its cover.
There is a trucking shortage already. This is not going to work.
Expect spot outages.
Expect HUGE outages!...............................
My wife car and my car have plates just one number apart, ones even, ones odd, I’ll just swap plates to get gas when I need it if they start that odd even crap again.
I assured my concerned wife that there would be no shortage of gas in this household.
Yep. Cancelling they Keystone Pipeline was a great idea. That is why Biden’s approval rating is over 60% in the latest poll. When the gasoline lines and hyper inflation hit Biden’s approval rate will surpass 90%. /s
No more Carbon for NYC and New England.
It’s what BiXiden wants.
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