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May 13, 2021
ROSWELL, N.M. Residents and oil producers in southeast New Mexico watched the turmoil on the East Coast over the Colonial Pipeline closure with a mix of amusement and anxiety as Americans panicked at the sudden loss of fuel.
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia were in a declared state of emergency by Monday. Fourteen of those reported gas outages just days after the nation’s largest pipeline east of the Mississippi River shut down over a ransomware attack last week.
The brief cessation of the pipeline’s four primary lines running 5,500 miles from Linden N.J, to the Gulf Coast in Houston, which transport 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, sparked an energy crisis just less than four months into the Biden presidency. Long lines, high prices, and empty gas stations up and down the eastern seaboard provoked flashbacks to the last time an administration embraced green energy as a replacement, rather than a supplement, when still dependent on