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.
bttt
Welcome! They are having their next meeting this July. And these people are all about Problem, Reaction, Solution. This is a quote from last year’s tabletop cybersecurity exercise:
“We all know, but still pay insufficient attention, to the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack could bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole. The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyberattack.
To use the COVID19 crisis as a timely opportunity to reflect on the lessons the cybersecurity community can draw and improve our unpreparedness for a potential cyber-pandemic.” ~ Klaus Schwab
It took Biden just about 10 day to eff up the country!
That should read: 100 days....
Nah, I think you were right the first time…
I can’t think of a thing he has done that has gone well.
And Biden shut down the keystone which alone raised gas prices here in TN some 80 cents per gallon. Biden is an idiot who has never had a real job.
Sounds almost as if they think they can get more lock-down
mileage out of it.
Yes...remember.
Feels like USA is being delivered on silver platter to our adversaries.
Yup
I'm waiting for Vlad to say the CIA did it. If he does, I'll believe him.
Gee, that's about the time it takes for a partial EV boost at a charging station under normal circumstances. Multiply that by the number of electron-starved Teslas lined up in front of you, and a 30 minute gas line wait doesn't seem so bad.
But what happens when the grid gets hacked?
Hunter Biden has plenty of gas.
Hunter’s collection of gas guzzling luxury vehicles include:
<><> a $200,000 Porsche,
<><> an Audi,
<><> a 2018 Ford Raptor Truck,
<><> a Jaguar Range Rover,
<><> a $100,000 Land Rover,
<><> a $50,000 BMW,
<><> a Chevrolet Truck,
<><> and an $80,000 gas guzzling boat.
Hunter worked from home.......earning $84,000 a month....and never even licked a single envelope.
Just remember that when they say 85 million they are referring to the number of votes that were counted for Biden. It wasn’t 85 million people. There were a lot of people who voted hundreds of times via faked absentee ballots that were never mailed or creased. Fresh off the copy machine.
85 million votes, not 85 million people.
Still, your point remains. We all know that Slow Joe hasn’t the foggiest idea of how to fix this, even if he wanted to, which he doesn’t.
You forgot about letting Texas freeze too.
Biden’s fault.
Glad to hear that he is “closely monitoring the situation”, though.
I concur. As a software engineer and programmer for over 20 years you back up everything. Also when you build computer dependent systems you always have a manual override. That way if need be you can take everything offline if needed. systems like this should not be on a public network.
I think he’s waiting for Obama to send instructions on what to do.
Maybe another trillion dollar rescue plan to rescue us from him.
You are right. However, assuming I did have a daily commute, I would rather have gas at $6.00 a gallon than no gas at $3.00 a gallon.
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