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Updated: 2021-05-13 07:28
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A gas station employee helps a customer pump gas as other motorists wait in line on Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45 percent of the fuel used on the East Coast of the US, halted operations last week after revealing a cyberattack that is said had affected some of its systems. [Photo/Agencies]
Fears that the shutdown of a major fuel pipeline network could cause a gasoline shortage led to some panic buying and prompted US regulators on Tuesday to temporarily suspend clean fuel requirements in three eastern states and the nation's capital.