Posted on 05/11/2021 8:52:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Governor Ron DeSantis Tuesday evening declared a state of emergency over Florida’s gas shortage after “hackers” caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down.
DeSantis said the state’s Attorney General is on the lookout for price gouging.
According to Fox 13, between 1/3 and 1/2 of gas stations in Florida are out of gas.
Long lines and gas shortages are being reported in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Panic buying Escambia County caused gas prices to surge:
SKY HIGH GAS PRICES: We’ve received calls into the @weartv newsroom about this #gas station in #EscambiaCounty selling regular gas for $4.29/gallon. Within a minute of our news car showing up, it was dropped to $3.29. Check it out 👇🏼 Are you paying more at the pump? #GasShortage pic.twitter.com/ghyAnQO7f6
— Renee Beninate (@reneebeninate) May 10, 2021
Gas shortage and long lines (Biden gas lines) in Quincy, Florida:
GAS SHORTAGE: This driver recorded long lines at six gas stations in Quincy, Florida on Monday, as several southeastern states face gas shortages due to the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline from a cyberattack. https://t.co/u6vGuawxXk pic.twitter.com/GwIhREFbOM
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 11, 2021
Governor DeSantis’ executive order says “the disruption of Colonial Pipeline operations poses a significant and immediate threat to the continued delivery of such fuel products to the State of Florida and many other states located in the Eastern United States,” and the attack “poses a severe threat to the State of Florida and requires that immediate measures be taken to protect and to facilitate the continued delivery of such fuel products to this State, until such time as Colonial Pipeline operations have fully resumed.”
The order will also remove limits on weight for tanker trucks and allows them to travel around the clock.
Meanwhile, the Biden Admin is sitting back and doing nothing after a cyberattack affected gas distribution for 1/3 of the country.
Governor Roy Cooper also declared a state of emergency over North Carolina’s gas shortage.
Convenient like the oil well fire in the Gulf. Now they can make oil pipelines the enemy.
Ka Ching
You ain’t crazy by a long shot! : )
100 days and already the Biden Marxist occupation has us back to the Carter days. To this day I remember the hell of gas lines, waiting for hours with my mom until she couldn’t take it anymore and freaked out crashing the car into a pole. Wait HOURS JUST TO BUY FREAKIN’ GAS!
Wait till people see the other benefits of living under a communist regime: BREAD LINES, or how about waiting on line to buy TOILET PAPER! And if you think that won’t happen, how are trucks going to transport all that stuff to stores when the Biden communist occupation wants to limit fuel usage in the fraudulent fight against “climate change”? “Sorry, we can only resupply your local supermarket once a month”
Must be why Joe visited Jimmy last week or so.
Hey you 85 million people who voted for this, perhaps you could wake up your guy and have him FIX THIS!
We call that the Biden Effect. Everything he touches turns to sh*T
I wonder if Joe will stay at the White Hut until this gas crisis is over. Turn out the lights. Send federal workers home. Shut down the waste.
I guess I am just puzzled but can’t the whole “hack” problem be resolved by bypassing it and manually control the pipeline?
“Wee muzd completely rid ourselved the depends on gasleens for ours futures”
This a primes ezzample” Joe Bid. Exeecutive Order 10372.
Bedtime.
If Governor De Santis believes in price gouging laws he is part of the problem. The price should always be set by the free market, and perhaps windfall profits from extreme prices should be heavily taxed.
Thanks miserare...
I think there’s an argument to be made along those lines, but
they killed Keystone without any hesitation at all. I see
this as merely another step in their big play.
Every idiot on the Left will be thrilled.
Thanks for the links and covering the topic like that.
These people have no concern for ramifications at all.
Thanks for the link.
This seems more and more like a domestic attack by the enemies
of our nation, from within.
Thanks. When I posted that, I figured there would be others
on the same wavelength.
Yeah...
Blame it on Russia, then blame it on Trump, then blame it on those who voted for Trump. Democrat Logic in action.
Nah, you use Odd / Even buying days approach perfected by Jimmuh.
Biden met with him to learn his secrets to Odd / Even rationing.
Pure negligence.....or purposefully coordinated/planned.
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