Gas Panic: East Coast Gasoline Demand Soars 32.5%, Outages Spread

Breitbart ^ | 5-11-2021 | John Carney

[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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[Tennessee Conservative]

Maybe for a little while. I got my Petco order last night but it’s still early.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The whole world’s lined up to humiliate Biden and his commie ‘WOKE’ idiots...

But mail in ballot fraud could keep dems in power no mater how foolish their policies are....

[jughandle]

Automation is great but some things just NEED to be manually operated.

[Red Badger]

I knew a guy who rented a Self-Storage locker and ‘lived’ in it for a month until he found a place.................

[GOPJ]

It's 'how' mail in ballots are done that's the problem... democrats can turn anything into a vehicle to cheat... because they're lowlifes.

Sane rules can make mail-ins legit.

I was a democrat and I know how they can use anything to cheat. Even something as simple as standing in line and filling out a ballot in person. When the legal voting was done, corrupt precinct people would hold back ballot boxes until they knew how many votes were needed for the win and they would take out stacks of cards from the pile of 'people who didn't show up to vote' and they would put an ice pick over the chad spot and hit it with a hammer... and POW - all those folks (including the dead - since the dead never show up to vote) were 'voted'...

[utford]

Demand is up - here in NC, the local media started showing any picture of a pump that was out on Tuesday morning, over and over again. They drove the panic buying - I imagine they are high fiving each other over their influence on behavior.