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...Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said investigators had seized 63.7 Bitcoins, now valued at about $2.3 million, paid by Colonial (COLPI.UL) after last month's hack of its systems that led to massive shortages at U.S. East Coast gas stations....An affidavit filed on Monday said the FBI was in possession of a private key to unlock the hackers' Bitcoin wallet. It was unclear how the FBI gained access to this key...."Today, we've turned the tables on DarkSide," said Monaco, referring to a ransomware group widely believed to have been behind the crippling fuel pipeline attack.

Here is excerpt from Just the News article: The cost of gasoline has reached a seven-year high, and gas stations are expect to run out of fuel during the July 4 weekend. The average national price for regular gas is priced at $3.10, the highest it has been since October 2014. The price is up 2% from Memorial Day and 42% from this time last year as COVID-19 pandemic restrictions brought demand to a near halt, according to CNN. snip Experts say the gas shortages expected to occur this weekend have nothing to do with the rising price of gas...

The US military pulling personnel out of Israel but first... Two members of the legislative assembly in Canada's Alberta province booted from the caucus of the ruling "United Conservative Party" tonight. They were opponents of the restrictive COVID-19 policies of Premier Jason Kenney with one of them coming out this morning calling on Kenney to resign as Premier... Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordering Border Police units deployed to deal with unrest across Israel that engulfed many cities last night as mobs of Jews and Arabs fought each other. Those units and other police overwhelmed in rioting today and tonight... Alert...

FLASHBACK – Jimmy Carter 1977: Set Winter Thermostat to 55 Degrees Overnight As president, Jimmy Carter advised Americans to set their thermostats to 55 degrees overnight during the winter months to “waste less energy,” offering his guidance in a televised address to the nation on February 2, 1977, in the midst of a national natural gas shortage. In laying out his proposed national energy policy, Carter did not call for reducing taxes on or regulation of the energy industry to incentivize increases in production. Instead, he prioritized “conservation.” ********************************************************************* Audio and Video

Proposals to control gasoline prices and tax producers' windfall profits were popular ideas that were tried -- without much success -- during the oil shocks of the 1970s and 1980s. The era of price controls is most remembered for long lines at gas stations. The controls were put in place by the Nixon and Ford administrations in reaction to a jump in fuel prices caused by cuts in production by the newly formed international oil cartel, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

April 21, 2006: 8:45 AM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some gasoline distribution terminals from Virginia to Massachusetts are seeing shortages as the industry phases out a water-polluting additive, the U.S. Energy Department said on Thursday. The Energy Department has reported shortages at terminals near Richmond, Virginia, as well as the Tidewater area near Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Beach which distribute gasoline to service stations . Average cost for a gallon of regular will be 25 cents higher than last year, U.S. says; strong driving season expected. Critics say ill-timed legislation is partly responsible for prices at the pump, but others...

wonder what this will do to oil/gasoline prices?

(Atlanta, Georgia-AP) - Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue Friday asked the state's schools to take two "early snow days" and cancel classes Monday and Tuesday to help conserve gasoline as Hurricane Rita threatens the nation's fuel supply line. If all of Georgia's schools close, the governor estimated about 250,000 gallons of diesel fuel would be saved each day by keeping buses off the road. Perdue also said an undetermined amount of regular gasoline also would be saved by allowing teachers, other school staff and some parents to stay home. He says electricity also would be conserved by keeping the schools closed....

<p>Arizona needs more flexibility with environmental requirements, better information about fuel supplies and stronger pipeline safety rules to avoid another debilitating gasoline crisis like last summer's, a governor-appointed panel said Thursday.</p> <p>The Essential Services Task Force issued its 21 recommendations nine months after a pipeline break near Tucson disrupted supplies, prompted long lines at pumps and sent prices soaring past $3 per gallon.</p>

<p>Customers overran Valley gas stations Wednesday night after a series of rumors inaccurately reported a rupture in the state's gasoline pipeline.</p> <p>Cars wrapped around dozens of gas stations, with worried customers topping off tanks in fear of a gasoline shortage similar to one that hit the state in August. The false reports, generated by an undetermined source, prompted Gov. Janet Napolitano's office to make a statement in an effort to quell the panic.</p>

<p>Kinder Morgan said Monday that there may be more cracks in its 125-mile-long Tucson-to-Phoenix gasoline pipeline.</p> <p>If more cracks are found, it would require the company to operate the line at less than half its capacity, exposing the Valley to possible supply problems.</p>

<p>Investigators have found contaminated groundwater near the site of ruptured Kinder Morgan pipeline in Tucson, raising speculation that the pipe may have been leaking before the July 30 break.</p> <p>"It looks like substantially more than 10,000 gallons was released," said Steve Owens director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.</p>

A train derailment in Southern California has forced the temporary shutdown of the gasoline pipeline that delivers most of the Phoenix area's gasoline supply. Authorities say at least one rail car derailed on or near the Kinder Morgan Energy Partners gasoline pipeline near Beaumont, Calif., about 25 miles east of Riverside. Kinder Morgan says the pipeline was shut down for inspection after the derailment last evening and that the pipeline was to be turned back on late Monday. Gov. Janet Napolitano says state officials were notified soon after the shutdown. She says the Phoenix area has at least a four...

<p>There has been no shortage of gaseous rhetoric from Gov. Janet Napolitano, a lawyer by trade, about the gas shortage. Like most liberals and other economic illiterates, her immediate reaction was to blame private industry.</p> <p>According to Mark Ellery of Napolitano's Commerce Department, the owner of the broken pipeline, Kinder Morgan Partners, has been trying for two years to get the government to approve permits for a new gasoline pipeline from Tucson to Phoenix. Two years.</p>

We had a similar problem back in early March. One of the two refineries in California that made our winter blend went off-line early. We were stuck with lower supplies until April 1st when we would begin using the summer blend. I asked Senator Bennett if I could introduce a bill that late in the session to release us from the fuel mandate. He said the Governor had indicated to him that she would take care of it by Executive Order. A week went by and she told the media that the problem would take care of it's self April...

<p>Arizona will never have to worry about terrorist attacks; it will self-destruct.</p> <p>This gas debacle is just another example of a state that is so sorely lacking in leadership that it is starting to have a real foul odor about it.</p>

<p>The owner of a crippled pipeline that created gas shortages in the Valley said Tuesday that it had received permission to begin testing repairs to the pipe and could reopen it by this weekend.</p>

<p>Gas shortages are hitting some Valley stations, and it could worsen by the weekend.</p> <p>Many independent stations run by Costco, Safeway and Albertsons were out of gas Thursday, even as the average price of regular unleaded in the Phoenix area hit another record at $1.77 per gallon.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES(AP) - Californians face the prospect of substantial volatility and spikes in gasoline prices next year as refiners switch to an ethanol-based gasoline.</p> <p>Energy traders, marketers and analysts warn that the transition from blending fuel with the additive MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) to using ethanol could bring gasoline shortages next year. They expect ethanol use to make blending and distribution more difficult, while leaving the state more dependent on outside suppliers.</p>

The UK could start experiencing gas shortages within as little as two years, scientists are warning. A report by the Royal Academy of Engineering, submitted to Energy Minister Brian Wilson on Friday, predicts the UK could have to import virtually all the gas it needs as early as 2020 because it will no longer have enough of its own. It attacks the government's energy policy as "hopelessly unrealistic" and says it places too much emphasis on renewable energy. Professor Ian Fells, one of the report's authors, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the problem with the government's energy policy...