Widespread panic buying continued two days after the nation's largest fuel pipeline network restarted. FMTNews
A gas pump at a gas station in Silver Spring, Maryland, notifying customers the station is out of fuel, last night.
Widespread panic buying continued two days after the nation’s largest fuel pipeline network restarted, leaving filling stations across the US Southeast out of gas even in areas far from the pipeline. “Most of these states/areas with outages have continued to see panicked buying, which is likely a contributing factor to the slow-ish recovery thus far,” said GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan. “It will take a few weeks.”
Some states experienced modest improvements in gas outages but still saw a high amount. About 70% of gas stations in North Carolina were without fuel, while around 50% of stations in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia had outages.