The Great Gasoline Panic of 2021 may be affecting close to 65% of North Carolina convenience stores and gas stations as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, according to national tracking group GasBuddy.com.
That s the highest percentage of the 11 states affected by the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, with Virginia at 44%, and Georgia and South Carolina at 43%.
The situation may be more acutely felt in certain Forsyth County and Triad communities, but it also could be easier to find gas in some areas.
Journal staffers have reported working pumps at Speedway stations on University Parkway and on Sprague at U.S. 52 as well as at the BP at the intersection of Walkertown and MLK. The Speedway, Shell, and Exxon stations on Silas Creek Parkway all had gas Wednesday afternoon without long lines.
House Bill 781, Bring Business Back to Downtown, generated much discussion before moving to the House Rules Committee.
The bill has two parts, said Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Henderson, a primary sponsor. One, it would allow municipalities to install social districts. He pointed to the Streets at Southpoint in Durham as an example, where people would leave a restaurant and carry a cup of alcohol within a permitted area. The second aspect, Moffitt says, would allow bars and restaurants to, in effect, extend their premises, which the governor has temporarily allowed in an executive order after the pandemic. H.B. 781 would make this permanent.
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How a year of the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered NC, shown in 15 charts Tyler Dukes and Gavin Off, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Mar. 3 Exactly one year ago, state health officials announced the first diagnosis of COVID-19 in North Carolina.
The case count has ballooned to nearly 900,000 in the months since, claiming the lives of more than 11,000 residents along the way. And alongside the enormous toll of sickness and loss, the novel coronavirus left its mark on nearly every aspect of life in 2020, from employment and court activity to state park visits and liquor sales.
Here s a look at just 15 ways the global pandemic changed things for all of us in North Carolina in 2020.