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âFuel is coming,â expert says as people panic buy gas
Panic buying at the gas pump By Lydia Nusbaum | May 12, 2021 at 6:41 PM CDT - Updated May 12 at 6:51 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama is not facing a shortage of gasoline, according to Bart Fletcher, president of the Petroleum and Convenience Marketers of Alabama.
People in the southeast began to panic buy gasoline after the Colonial Pipeline shutdown for several days. As of Wednesday evening, the pipeline said it is restarting pipeline operations.
Fletcher said the panic and rush to pump is creating an artificial shortage.
âWeâve seen the public create a shortage of a product that there was really absolutely no reason for a shortage of that particular product to occur,â Fletcher said.