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Should you worry about gasoline supply in York County?
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York County residents don t have to worry about a gasoline shortage, even as pictures on the internet show people hoarding fuel in containers and garbage bags.
Panic-buying erupted last week after gas stations from Texas through the southeast faced significant outages when the Colonial Pipeline shut down due to a ransomware attack.
Pennsylvania, however, was not affected, industry experts said.
“You guys have been fine,” said Allison Mac, an analyst for GasBuddy, “We’re not even tracking Pennsylvania when it comes to shortages.”
The operator of the pipeline, which runs along the eastern border of Pennsylvania, has since paid roughly $5 million to recover stolen data, according to The New York Times.
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I ve already said a list of the Top Ten Things I Never Thought I d Have To Say Out Loud to An Adult is, Here s how to wash your hands. I have another to add. Don t fill plastic bags with gasoline.
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Why am I saying this? Because.well, it s 2021, and while I m pretty sure the panic won t come to Minnesota, but you never know how the panic will spread and when you re panicked, you might do something without thinking.
The Colonial Pipeline, which transports about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, has been shut down since Friday following a ransomware attack.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned Americans Wednesday not to fill plastic bags with gasoline as a fuel shortage strikes the East Coast. The Colonial Pipeline, which transports about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, has been shut down since Friday following a ransomware attack. Gas stations have fuel outages in 11 states and the District of Columbia, according to GasBuddy, which uses crowd-sourced data to track fuel demand and prices. In North Carolina, 65% of stations have outages and in Virginia, 44%, according to GasBuddy data published Wednesday afternoon. Images have surfaced on social media recently of drivers using nontraditional containers to store gasoline.
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