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Source: Michael Snyder/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP
Panic started to infest parts of the United States. Gas lines were forming. Gas stations ran out of fuel. Videos of people filling plastic bags and storage bins with gasoline were captured. That’s also super unsafe. The gas panic of 2021 has begun. Blessedly, it only lasted a couple days. Over the weekend, Colonial Pipeline was hit by a cyber-attack. The 5,500-mile pipeline which supplies fuel to 45 percent of the eastern United States was shut down. Officials said they hoped to get it back online by the end of this week, but certainty was far from an assurance here. There were warnings that if the shutdown lingered, Alabama all the way north through Baltimore could experience fuel shortages. Panic buying ensued.