Posted on 05/11/2021 1:12:07 PM PDT by blam
Demand for gasoline soared Monday as the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline sent Americans to the pumps.
Gas demand on the east coast of the U.S. rose 32.5 percent compared with the prior Monday, GasBuddy petroleum analyst Patrick De Haan tweeted on Tuesday.
(vs the prior Monday)
— Patrick De Haan ⛽️📊 (@GasBuddyGuy) May 11, 2021
PADD is short for Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, a designation created during World War II to allow the government to allocate petroleum distribution. PADD 1 is the East Coast, PADD 2 is the Midwest, PADD 3 is the Gulf Coast, PADD 4 is the Rocky Mountains, and PADD 5 is the West Coast.
In addition, many areas around the country are experiencing gasoline outages, De Haan tweeted. The largest outage on Tuesday was in Virginia.
GASOLINE OUTAGES as of 11am CT: GA 4.4% AL 0.5% TN 0% SC 2.1% NC 6.3% FL 2.6% VA 7.6%
— Patrick De Haan ⛽️📊 (@GasBuddyGuy) May 11, 2021
“On the week, the national gas price average jumped six cents to $2.96. If the trend continues, an increase of three more cents would make the national average the most expensive since November 2014 –the last time we saw average prices at $2.99 and higher,” AAA reported.
From AAA’s gas price update:
AAA forecasts gas prices to climb this week in reaction to the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, which delivers approximately 45 of all fuel to the East Coast. Over the weekend, the Colonial Pipeline announced they were the victim of a cybersecurity attack and, as a precaution, shut down the pipeline, which runs from Texas to New York Harbor. At this time, some lateral lines have reopened, but there is no word of when the mainline, including the gasoline line, will be operational.
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shoot, that would be cheap gas where I live. Been over $3 for a while for me.
I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Democrats don’t seem to understand economics or business. They don’t know how to negotiate with other countries or deal with them.
Why the democrat voters can’t see this is puzzling.
WAKE UP DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!! We are sick of your stupidity!!!
Uh-oh! Wonder if my eBay and Amazon orders will be affected by this? Grrrrrrr
actually, i think many dems, or lefty independents don’t really vote at all. the box(es) is just checked for them each election by the party, or the party just manufactures the necessary votes as in election 2020.
the 20% or so of woke (socialist/commie) dems who vote for real, know exactly what they are doing, and are very happy with what’s happening to America. its destruction is their real plan, and that’s the saddest part.
My new RAM 1500 has a 33 Gallon Fuel Tank. Topped it off last Friday.
Waiting for the Gasoline thieves to start up again.
I remember Hillary Clinton wanted to bring back the 55 MPH Speed Limit in the early 2000’s.
After destroying middle class job growth and the growing economy under Trump, along with STEALING the election, they have now changed course are are extracting MEGA-DOLLARS with a manufactured gas shortage.
More to come. It's about the "Benjamins"
One of the major refineries in Texas has already partially shut down due to this pipeline shutdown.
They only have so much storage capacity, so when the pipeline went down they HAD to shutdown part of the refinery.
How long is it going to take to bring THAT back up?
Automation replaced the personnel of the former command and control system.
Three days?
I dunno.
Way back when I wuz commuting to work I tanked up about once a week.
Wife’s car? About the same frequency.
I wuz commuting t9o work
You should get over 300K from them easily. Some have surpassed a half-million miles with proper maintenace and upkeep!
I toyed with the idea of what you did as I was living on my grandparent’s non-working farm back in early ‘03. I was going to buy a fuel oil tank and then have ‘offroad’ diesel delivered-at a significant discount-and then running it in the VW. Problem was I could never could find a suitable vehicle close enough to make it worthwhile...
“You should get over 300K from them easily”
I certainly hope so. They are my legacy to myself as I fade into extreme old age.
Doing the timing belt/water pump 100K mile maintenance is not really all that much fun. On a warm Summer’s day with a couple of brewskis and the dog hanging about, maybe not so bad. We’ll see.
no i haven’t been drinking- my fingers have dyslexia apparently
sure looks like it- my sister drove one that looks like that- kinda hard to tell from the photo though-
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