The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that mass panic is setting in at gas stations around the East Coast following the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline fuel line that is responsible for 45% of the fuel on the east coast. Massive gas lines are forming, similar to the gas lines that formed in the 1970’s around the country, and stations were running out of gas.
As many as 7.5% of gas stations in Virginia had run out of gas. In North Carolina, the figure was 5%.
This area had not been affected as of Monday; Casey’s in Grant City was still charging $2.64 a gallon, where it had been for the last few months. But in many other parts of the country, gas prices had already been approaching $3 a gallon.
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