Panic buying gas creates even more hours on the road for hazardous material truckers
Panic buying gas creates even more hours on the road for hazardous material truckers By Miranda Parnell | May 11, 2021 at 11:34 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 11:56 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Russian hackers have caused turmoil up and down the east coast with their cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline. But petroleum distribution experts say, taking more gas than you need just adds fuel to the fire.
“The biggest concern we have right now is panic buying,” said Michael Fields the executive director at the South Carolina Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association. “I’ve seen some pictures that have been very disheartening of people that are filling gas cans just over and over…when you add that to what we already have with the pipeline disruption.that adds a real problem to what we already have.”