In a PRAVDA-esque display of regime defense on behalf of JoeBama the New York Times (state run media) attempted to deny the reality of what many Americans are experiencing. However, after immediate backlash… the proverbial stealth edit, as people started pointing out the absurdity of their claims:
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Obviously this narrative runs in the exact opposite of reality. So stark was the contrast the NYT quickly re-positioned:
New York Times […] “On Tuesday, hundreds of filling stations in the Southeast either ran out of gasoline or restricted sales as panic buying surged, particularly in Georgia and Tennessee. Nationwide, the price of regular gasoline climbed by nearly 2 cents a gallon, to $2.99, on Tuesday. In Georgia, the daily price rose by nearly 10 cents a gallon.”
Part of the problem is a shortage of truck drivers to move fuel by road. But most experts said the price rise would be short-lived.
“Potentially it will be inconvenient,” said Ed Hirs, an energy economist at the University of Houston. “But it’s not a big deal because there is storage in the Northeast and all the big oil and gas companies can redirect seaborne cargoes of refined product when it is required.” (read more)
Obviously those behind the Biden administration are not going to let this opportunity to go waste. The pattern: (1) Create a crisis; (2) step-in with a government solution; (3) advance the leftist agenda. Cue the Green New Deal and Infrastructure narratives
Dallas……overnight spike of $0.20 a gallon….
Some shortages , but word is spreading and by tonight people will rush to top off tanks.
Lucky you. I’m in SC. Gas was 2.43 Sunday. Gas today, if you can find it, is 3.11. Probably 98% of the stations in my area are empty. Already have employees calling to inform they won’t have enough gas to get to work later this week.
Can’t help but marvel that the states reopening in defiance of the feds are now the ones about to experience a major supply chain/commuting disruption.
As you know, there is absolutely no correlation between the two.
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The EPA (read the Feds) shut down a fuel terminal in Pensacola Fl. for ‘not meeting standards’. Standards that terminal met every year prior to ’21.
Long lines here in NWFL, though I was able to fill with diesel @ $2.79/gal this morning.
Then this is a planned and coordinated ATTACK on the South by the fedgov. They shut P’cola’s fuel terminus and then shut the Colonial….huh. I don’t believe in coinkidinks.
There are no coincidences….especially when Tyrants are in charge.
I think that pix of jobama with the Carter family is his Dukakis tank Moment.
Roger that, but citizens back in the day wouldn’t allow him to steal the election. Tank or no tank.
Absolutely they wouldn’t! And we should not either. Damn protocol and processes! It’s compromised!! When will we stand up and force the issue? It’s long past time to bring wrath upon them.
It has to be done.
Absolutely
Sundance, Thanks for all you do. Love that picture of Bagdad Bob Wolf.
Did Pravda claim it wasn’t the state organ of the communist party? It is also probable that there are more true believers in socialism in the Times than there ever was in Pravda.
I just went to get gas. Sam’s Club out of gas. every gas station in town out of gas. Found a gulf station in rural area with long line. Filled up and owner said he was down to 200 gallons. So, yes, there is a gas shortage. No price goughing because SC law does not allow it.
Never thought I would see this crap again in my lifetime with the glut of gas we had under President Trump. Didn’t take the commies long to show how commies work.
I live in Florida and I was supposed to drive up north to NJ to see my children on Wed. and now I don’t know if I want to go. I can imagine all the gas stations along I 95 are or will be out of gas by Wed. morning. Next comes the food shortages. Gas and food shortages, an open border letting in thousands and thousands of 3rd world crap, high inflation coming real soon. lose of 401’s. How much do they think the people will take before it all comes crumbling down.
Crumbling down is their goal.
I don’t think they will like the response they get from the “right this minute generation” when they achieve their goal or the old timers either for that matter.
By that time they will control the military and local police.
The local police have families that must eat and purchase gasoline. They may not control them as much as you think.
What is the younger generation going to do when there is no UBER EATS for them. HA HA
Definitely do not go. I would say don’t risk going in to enemy territory anyway, but especially don’t now! You’ll be stuck camping on the side of the road in your hot car for days!
Yep, just like 1979. Camping out at a Gulf station in Pittsburgh waiting to buy 4 gallons of gas when they opened in the morning.
I’d sit back and wait a bit longer – if possible.
N.C. and S.C. seem to be among the hardest hit so far.
Thanks, I think I am going to stay and see maybe what Sat or Sun brings and if not I will wait until the middle of June, hopefully everything calms down by then. I am going to go to the store Wed and stock up on water and TP just in case. Panic buying is going to be through the roof.
Oh good!
And about the Grocery Store: yes.
This gas thang seems to be setting off a Grocery Panic in some areas. I expect that’ll be replicated elsewhere.
Why do you need to stock up on TP? Aren’t you still overstocked because the 6th wave of COVID is just around the corner?
/end sarc
Democrat Playbook
Spygate. Russiagate. Impeachment. CoVid. elekshun. Impeachment. Mask (eternal). Gas shortage. Food shortage. Crime rise. Insurrection (the real kind–if people fear for their lives and have nothing to eat and no means to go get food/suppliies).
I have a week of vacation planned for next week. Will be driving through Tennessee and Alabama. Should be interesting.
Open state.
Home of the POTUS 45.
Hand delivered gem for the GOP (and what do we hear? Crickets.)
I am fearful for the potential this all presents, esp. regarding food shortages.
Yep. In SC too. Same experience. Got lucky, filled up one the other day and still full and was able to find some premium to fill the other car with about an hour ago, which is the grade I use anyway.
By the time I left the station they were almost out of the last of the premium too. All stations by my neighborhood are all closed all pumps.
Too many people went to the pumps with 2-5 gas cans in addition to filling vehicles. Can’t even get premium now.
If this goes on past this week, here’s my prediction: School’s Out For The Summer!!
Plenty of gas in Colorado but
We are a blue state!
Plenty of gas in Idaho, but we’re a Red state.
The pipeline doesn’t even go thru Colorado, plus there is a refinery on the north side of Denver.
Where are you in SC? Gas has jumped almost seventy cents in forty-eight hours outside Greenville. Hearing Columbia is worse.
Easley, SC. Paid $2.79 per gal.
Nice! Most of Laurens was out when I drove through. Prices skyrocketing in the few stations still running.
Just paid 2.66 at a BP in Rock Hill, SC. They were hanging signs on the pumps-all out of premium. They still had regular when I was there an hour ago.
Yeah, I remember the shortages and lines in the early 70’s, it seemed widespread but back then all we had was the three networks and local newspaper and radio telling us what ‘truth’ was.
Thanks for the on the ground report and I hope people not currently affected can balance the canary offered with reasonable needs, as I fear this type of situation will spread to other commodities as the year progresses. We got a preview last year with the run on toilet paper and other sundries and food items.
Where I live stations being out of fuel isn’t uncommon, it depends on when a tanker gets there, normal in rural Oregon. We don’t run things down to vapor, always have a reserve, and life goes on, the pace is slow. My vehicles and equipment are standardized on diesel which seems to be more stable locally. That varies. Good luck!
It’s so bad in the Carolinas that Gas Buddy has crashed!
That was good. I hope that people on this site give updates daily on what is happening with fuel. Maybe Sundance can ask people to give updates like he did with the fake pandemic. Wait until they hit the electricity grid, then we will be in deep doo doo.
The price gouging conundrum:
Are you and your neighbors better off feeling they haven’t been gouged at the pump with no gas available, or with gas available but at a price so high no one is willing to pay for it?
While it may seem a rhetorical question, it is the fundamental thesis of an article in defense of price gouging that I once read. Because if it is available but just really expensive, if you desperately need it to get someone somewhere (say a heart transplant patient who will die if you don’t pay the price) you might be willing to pay the price. But if there isn’t any there it doesn’t matter how much you are willing to pay.
Retired Magistrate here: Unfortunately, this brings back very unpleasant memories of the Carter Presidency. If you got gas depended on what letter your last name started with; then you waited in long lines for hours and by the time you got to the pump usually the gas was gone.
The real estate market was in shambles (wait, that is coming) interest rates were 18% on home loan mortgages, we were encouraged to keep our thermostats low in the Winter and high in the Summer and no Christmas lights. We actually had a misery index.
The good news is that I do see people starting to wake up and see what the “compassionate” Biden administration is really trying to do; turn our country into a communist gulag. Even liberals need gas for their cars, food in their stomachs and want a place to live. Also, more and more people are speaking out about the obvious voter fraud. Keep on praying that GOD will have mercy on us and restore our country to us as founded.
They even had to invent the term “Stagflation” to describe the misery. What will we call it this time, Bamaflation, Xiflation, Joeflation?
Commifornacation…..
Amen
A picture with the Carter’s and then a gas shortage is no coincidence if you believe in them
Whoa–thx for putting that together for me.
Marcia, been there, done that. Never thought I would see that again. Most gas stations in my area of northeastern NC out of gas already. I filled up a few days ago when I heard the pipeline story.
Liberals drive Teslas and Priuses. This a crisis for deplorables only.
Marcia: I, too, remember Carter years. Gas lines. Super high interest rates. Malaise. Cardigan sweaters.
Feeling nostalgic for the Soviet Union? Want to experience Venezuala? JoeBama’s got just what you’ve been looking for.
I bought my first house in New Hampshire back then and my interest rate was 18%. When Reagan came into office I got a huge pay increase. I do believe we are going to win this battle. Trump and the Patriots are doing things behind the scenes we are not aware of just yet.
Don’t forget that interest on credit card purchases was 21% then!
The speaking out on voter fraud may be the driving force in the pipeline shutdown!!
Most cards are 21% and higher now.
When things get hot for the commies, they always light a fire somewhere else…right out of the Bolshevik playbook
yes and odd even days… I remember..
I lived in Phoenix during the Carter years. We had longer lines, and rationing based on last digit of license plate, odd or even. Did not see any stations without gas. I think most of our gas came from independents in California.
Yup… took a second mtg at 16%… Even and odd dates to get gas depending on your plate number.. Stations flew Red or Green flags to depict if they had gas or not… Here in NC stations I’ve passed have *closed” signs on their pumps..
Amen Marcia, yes I do Pray to the Lord and have Faith.
Who cares about the economy? What matters is which pronoun we prefer.
Eric,
I think JoeBama has sent 5G waves from the White House over to your house, causing your brain to turn mushy ????
That sounds exactly like something AOC would say, lol.
“There are no gas rations in Jobama-ania.
In other news, the price of daily gas allotments has been lowered from ten cents, to twenty cents.”
We should learn from the demon rats never let a crisis go to waste we should put the blame exactly on the Democrats. Every time there’s a contradiction to reality the GOP should point that out. We should take notice which Republicans are with the people in which are not in vote accordingly. We should always point out that the Democrats are the true enemy of freedom loving Americans.
We should show pictures of Piglosi eating ice cream and ordinary American doing with out. We have to show the stark difference between a communist society and a free society and keep hammering it.
It doesn’t matter. The Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats.
Let’s UNITE in our revulsion of the DC cabal in its entirety, so we can get this party started.
They only need to look at the CIA. Evil bastards who have done more harm to the world than any other regime.
They may have been the ones who did the cyber attacks. They are truly evil and nothing would surprise me anymore.
I had a similar thought. The bit I do recall from the morning interview with the security guru was his defense of not being able to do anything about these organizations because they are in foreign countries and we have no extradition treaties with them. My unspoken thought was, “Fine! Send in a covert team and kill them.”
Sundance is doing a great job with this gas information. Thanks.
Wall Street, financiers, hedgefunders, these are the people who profit from a Uniparty government. They bid up our cost of living, heat up commodities markets, prey on insider info and get filthy rich from doing nothing but shuffling paper. They wanted Trump out because he’s against all that. Biden is just paying them back, getting them back in the saddle and jacking prices. There will be inflation. That’s what’s going to destroy these criminals eventually.
I hope it destroys the criminals before it destroys us.
Regularly proclaiming false information as fact. There is so much of it there isn’t time to refute it all, besides you’d be censored and canceled.
Wolf Blitzer…does anyone even need to ask about his background and motives?
I’m in Western NC….this is very real! I went and filled up my Jeep yesterday and it was 2.75. When I was pulling out of the Shell station it went up to 2.79. Many stations are already running out and if they have as, they also have long lines.
California has more oil than most Countries and gas this morning $4.29 in my rural town. In some areas $5.29.
TAXES
Good luck finding any soon! Charlotte and Asheville are out. Shelby has a little bit but other areas are worse.
So old Roy declared A state of emergency!! How is that going to help us?
You’ll be eligible for more government powergrabs! Yay!
Praying for y’all from down in S(lightly better) Carolina.
3.24 9/10 at the untaxed gas station here in Alaska.
I sure it can be blamed on the U-Boats prowling the Gulf of Alaska, and sinking the barges carrying gasoline from the refineries down in WA State.
Part of the problem is a shortage of truck drivers to move fuel by road. But most experts said the price rise would be short-lived.
To haul POL in bulk a person with a CDL must have Tanker and HazMat indorsements. The reality is that POL is not generally hauled long distances by truck. Trains and ships are much more efficient for such transport. Pipelines are the most efficient of all and have the best record for doing it safely and that is why the left is so much against them.
But really what are they complaining about? They are getting exactly what they wanted after all.
There was no shortage of drivers moving fuel a couple of days ago. Why don’t they use the National Guard to haul fuel.
guarding the Capital.
Colonial Pipeline moves more that 42,000,ooo GALLONS per day of gasoline. Tanker trucks may haul 10,000 GALLONS or so. Don’t think extra drivers are going to solve the problem if Colonial PL is actually shut down.
True, but it will at least let them put a band aid on that ruptured major artery.
FU NYT
At noon yesterday lines were long and many statioms out of gas in central FL
Central Florida does not get their gas from this pipeline.
Idiots watching the news think it’s nationwide. Its regional. The panhandle gets gas off the pipeline.
Central Florida is supplied from the depot in Tampa that takes refined gas by tanker ship.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/port-of-tampa-unveils-new-55-million-petroleum-terminal/2149912/
I wonder how many people were reading the failed Times while waiting in line for gasoline.
It must be all a dream.
They have zero credibility, I don’t know why people read their fish wrap.
NeptuneBarbie: Self affirmation and the tingles.
CO think any self-respecting fish would be insulted to be wrapped in that garbage.
Lol lol
His Exalted Excellency Emperor Biden has very fine new clothes, we tell you! How dare anyone say he is just standing there in his adult diapers???!!! This is spreading Russian disinformation! This is insurrection!! This is sedition! This is domestic terrorism!
Thank you. Far too many posters here are gonna be in a DC prison by the end of the week and don’t even THINK about bail you dirty insurrecterrorists.
“…climbed by nearly 2 cents a gallon…”
Here on the Oregon coast we paid $1.73 per gallon in December 2020.
Today it is $3.49/gallon
sure up 2 cents
right
bunch of liars and other things unprintable
The Pravda media of the Globalists doing their work defending and helping Obama whenever needed. What a joke of a country we live in today. God please help us.
god helps those who help themselves.
Triple A is saying the shortage of gasoline is because of a shortage in fuel drivers. Gee, did they all quit in the last 4 days, because because before that there was no shortage of gasoline. These people must think we are all so F’ing stupid.
What a load of bullshit!(from AAA)
MSM doing their part to create misinformation and panic.
Nothing new.
Maybe it’s simply a diversion so we don’t notice the skyrocketing vaccine body counts on VAERS? /s
Yes, time for more emergency orders. First, from the JoeBama Misadministration, and now, from individual states. Everyone shelter in place. Wear a mask. Eat plants, not meat.
I just filled up at Spring Market here in east Texas and mid grade is at 3.18 a gallon, regular was at 2.89. The last time I put gas in was about 2 weeks ago and mid grade was at 2.89.
Note the continued erosion of credibility that is a direct product of poorly coordinated fibs the Government, both state and federal, engages the dinosaur media to further as facts spill out.
I automatically assume any government narrative is a lie. Yesterday, it was Russia hacking the pipeline via ransomeware.
No facts to support that assertion. Runs nicely with Fauxchi telling us masks are useless, then to wear two, even if you have had the Vaccine, which is actually not a Vaccine.
Nothing these governments and their media arm invents is at all believable.
Do they really think that sentient persons can’t keep track of facts and repeatedly juxtaposed narratives?
If government, it’s media arm, or its corporate allies say it, you will rarely be wrong if you assume the opposite is true. Just think how stupid Woke Coke and Delta look as fraud facts dribble forth daily. It would be truly gratifying to see both go Chapter 11, then 7.
I’m sure it was based on what Crowdstrike came up with…BS
This BS is sickening. They can’t hide their evil deeds anymore thanks to the internet. As soon as I first saw the article in the UK Daily Mail, I knew we were in for it- another blow from the Evil Empire.
I live in the suburbs about 50 miles north of Manhattan and we have a small quick stop gas station down the road from my house. The prices here are always good, plus I like to give the locals the business. We have already filled up every gas and propane tank we had on the property.
Yesterday the price went up from $2.79/ gal. to $3.15 for regular and the place was continuously busy every time I drove by. Today there are actual lines and I expect them to be out of gas by closing time tonight.
The supermarket parking lots are packed. People are stocking up on everything. I expect we will start seeing bare shelves again.
The Bidenistas or whoever is now running this country, are directly in league with Satan himself. The relentless destruction that is raining down on us day after day can only come directly from people who have made a pact with the Devil. There is no other reasonable excuse I can think of for the mass destruction that is taking place. The Left/Dem/Commies would like to see us dead and our country burned to the ground.
I believe that the good Lord will not allow this to continue and that there will be once again a Divine Intervention as there was when our President Trump was first elected. We must stay the course and remember that it’s always darkest before the dawn.
Thank you Seneca God will prevail God Bless Sir.
This is not real tough to call BS on. I don’t believe one bit of a “hacker” story behind this gas crisis. This deal makes about as much sense as Russian Collusion, Fake Impeachments, a Jan 6th insurrection and a fair 2020 election.
Agree! It would be the equivalent of believing an ant could eat a bale of hay!
It’s likely a systems test. When Globalists come to put down the Insurrection once and for all, they don’t want us moving around too much.
Other grids have been going dark lately. They may as well cut off all internet, phone and communication systems while they’re at it. I will tell you from experience that this alone is an extremely disconcerting experience.
There is also an attack on the Washington D.C> police department, threatening to release records if they don’t pay 4m..D>C> just payed 100,000 so they said it’s not enough and will release police records.
https://news.yahoo.com/ransomware-gang-threatens-release-dc-143533136.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma
What I think is odd is that D.C. agreed to pay a sum.
Digitize everything on a non-closed system; what could go wrong?
Also, wonder if those records will include a Bernie Sanders supporter who had a shortness of breath episode after a reported robbery
Obama regime was crisis to crisis also so this is just a carryover of past failed policies. Of course the corporate owned media monopoly will parrot whatever is necessary to convince the sheeple that Xiden is in complete control and not to worry he will save the day.
Isn Putin getting 10% of the ransom? Just asking for “The Big Guy.”
Could the deep state hate DeSantis so intensely that they triggered this pipeline downtime?
I don’t know about DeSantis, but they sure do hate us. And the feeling is mutual.
Also heard that NPR was touting the fact the almost 40% of Americans have now taken the C0v1d jabs, which are “100% effective and there have been NO reports of ANY adverse effects”! Excuse my language – but WTF are these people smoking and how stupid do they think the American populace really is?
“No, no – don’t trust what you see happening right in front of your very eyes…trust US when we tell you that there are NO problems, there have been NO problems since January 20th! We are NOT at war with Eastasia – we are at war with Eurasia – we have NEVER been at war with Eastasia!”
Everyone lies. It’s the new black.
And NPR is being funded by our tax dollars
As is PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts!! SO frustrating!! At least 50% of the Gubmint agencies could shut down tomorrow and most Americans wouldn’t even notice, except of course for the fact that wouldn’t feel Big Brother breathing down their neck quite as much!!
The sheeple are taught to believe that once they survive the second jab they are home-free. However, most serious problems with previous mRNA vaccine trials took place after all the vaccinated volunteers were later exposed to viruses in the wild. That’s when all those lemurs up and died.
YES!! I know several people who are having side effects NOW…2-3 months AFTER they got their second jab. And they don’t connect it until I ask if they got the shots and if they have ever had these issues before. Then the lights go on, but a few of them refuse to see any correlation – they insist that it is “just a coincidence”! But yes, I think the real numbers are going to shoot up next “flu” season and by then, how many MORE people will have been forced into getting the shots by employers, schools, or businesses?
In one respect, the Slimes was correct. There are no long lines and there was no price hike. Then again, there is NO GAS either!!!!! All the truth that’s fit to print!! That is after manipulation, of course!
Amazing the government and gas companies haven’t heard of redundancy.
One single pipeline shouldn’t cause “panick”. The delivery system shouldn’t even notice as alternative routes/methods just keep plugging away.
And no, they can’t be operated manually either! Even the most sophisticated aircraft can be operated manually. People who are believing this stuff have given up their brain to the system to think for them on their behalf…. same people they trust to run the elections.
Yup, Problem, Reaction and Solution. Never fails.
To at least get a laugh today I saw this…
From Sky News…
Hey Sleepy Joe, I think it would be less confusing if you just turned the Teleprompter around and let us read it for ourselves.
This guy is AWESOME. He tells it like it is about China Joe.
Random people: “Yeah… the pipeline was hacked! Damned hackers!”
Me: “Do you really think these things can’t be operated manually the way they were a decade or so ago?”
Random people: <blank stare>
Here’s one we all know and love by the great Ronald Reagan, and sorry if someone beat me to it
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
As the leftist Goebbels would put it – It is vitally important for the Left to use all of its powers to repress inconvenient truths, for such truths are the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension the greatest enemy of the Left.
You on this one, Jack? Looks like you’re letting things slide a bit over there on twit.
The answer is obviously that we need to cancel another pipeline.
Part of the problem is that east coast has been losing refining capacity as they don’t want refineries. So product needs to be imported. A big Philly refinery had a fire last year and hass been shut down.
Ahh…the bygone days of Marcus Hook having an eternal orange glow reflected from the clouds hanging over the huge cluster of refineries….flames belching from the tops of the stacks…. I can almost smell the gases……
Shell Oil closed down a huge refinery in Louisiana about 3 days after the election. A few weeks ago they started the truck driver shortage. Now this so called hack.
They’re gonna need a BIGGER fence!
for what? more online complaints?
I know right, hahaha….
Why wait for a crisis to occur and then hurriedly scramble to shoehorn leftist insanity into society, when it’s so much easier and convenient to create that crisis at a time of their choosing.
Always the evil opportunists, even if the DemoFascists didn’t plan this crisis, they never one go to waste.
pelosi eybrows…hmmmm
Ummm…..Thank God a ‘supply crunch’ doesn’t equate to an availability shortage……ummmm……wait…….
Ground reports?
I just wish people would wake up! This morning my coworker complained about her summer road trip plans being hampered by high gas prices. “this summer’s gonna suck if gas is expensive” is the least of her problems! This is the problem with superficial thinkers. I filled up every vehicle and can yesterday. She’s bitching about stopping for gas after work. God almighty!
Exactly! We’ve been sold “Bread and Circuses”. Your friend is typical. Raising hell about their vacation, while the country is being destroyed
This is what happens when the mass media propaganda conglomerate goes full tilt to protect the ruling regime.
True patriots see right through their smoke & mirrors.
first its gas, then meat and veggies, then when only electric ubers can drive you, you will get to go to a 7-Eleven and buy a big sugary gulp, and some chocolate bars…covid loves diabetes, obesity, and inflammation. What a perfect plan.
It’s a lot worse than that. I remember 40 years back when I was in college my roommate and I would fly brand new private aircraft to Venezuela, mostly for people that made their wealth working in infrastructure, mostly oil production stuff.
Venezuela was the richest country in South America back then. Look at it now. One of the first things Communists do is wrestle away complete control of all critical infrastructure from private businesses. That is exactly what happened in Venezuela.
What happened there next was that all the people who knew how to RUN those critical infrastructures left the country. None of the people left knew a thing about running nor repairing any of the stuff. It all collapsed.
And today, I read this on Fox News reporting on the new gas “crisis”:
“Nonetheless, the attack underscored the vulnerabilities of the nation’s energy sector and other critical industries whose infrastructure is largely privately owned.”
That is straight out of the mouth of Marxists propagandists. This is how it starts. Exactly the Venezuela playbook.
Even the Daily Mail is reporting on the long gas lines other issues.
I don’t believe it will take a week to get the pipeline back. They didn’t eliminate 15 pumping stations. And whoever designed a system that can be hacked should be fired. There is no excuse for external access.