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WCCB Charlottes CW AAA predicts 60% more travelers than last year, still 14% below pre-pandemic levels May 17, 2021 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (News Release) – For the 1 million North Carolinians expected to travel by car this Memorial Day, gas prices are trending more than $1 higher than last year, when demand plummeted as much of the country was under stay-at-home orders. Now, at $2.93, North Carolina gas price averages are 29 cents more than this time in May 2019. “Many Carolinians are so eager to ...

As fuel flows once again through Colonial Pipeline and into the Carolinas, experts warn it could take days for gas stations to return to normal supply. Even still, it’s welcome news for gas stations around the area. “We’re kinda able to laugh a little bit right now, because there’s more certainty of supply than there has been, as we’ve really really been stressed. I’ll be honest with you,” said Stewart Spinks, founder and chairman of The Spinx Co. Spinks said his stations don...

Colonial Pipeline has restarted, but this weeks panic buying means limited supplies Adam Wagner and Ben Sessoms, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) May 14—North Carolina continued to experience widespread gasoline shortages Friday, which experts and officials largely attributed to ongoing panic buying as well as high vehicle traffic in state. As of 8 a.m., 69% of North Carolinas gas stations did not have any supply, according to GasBuddys Patrick De Haan. By noon, that had im...

By Christina Haley ONeal, posted About 6 hours ago Fuel at the pumps around Wilmington is still lacking at some gas stations. (Photo by Cece Nunn) The gas shortage situation is expected to remain a problem this weekend before getting better, according to AAA.  “The Carolinas will continue to see limited fuel supply for the next few days,” said Tiffany Wright, spokeswoman for AAA Carolinas, in an email Friday.  More gas is on the way in the next 24 to 48 hours, she said, t...

On Wednesday morning, GasBuddy reported 25% of North Carolina gas stations were out of fuel but by the end of the workday, that number rose to nearly 70%.

Largest US pipeline restarts operations after hack shut it down for nearly a week Oliver Milman © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA The largest fuel pipeline in the US has restarted operations nearly a week after a cyber-attack forced its shutdown, prompting distribution problems and panic-buying that drained supplies at thousands of gas stations. Colonial Pipeline initiated the restart of operations late Wednesday, saying in a statement: “All lines, in...

AAA Carolinas is warning gas prices likely won’t fall quickly despite a pipeline supplying much of the East Coast’s fuel began to come back online Wednesday following a cyberattack.

|May 13, 2021 at 7:01 AM EDT - Updated May 13 at 10:32 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - AAA Carolinas is warning gas prices likely won’t fall quickly despite a pipeline supplying much of the East Coast’s fuel began to come back online Wednesday following a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline began to restart operations around 5 p.m. Wednesday, nearly a week after the company learned it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack.That cyberattack led the company to shut down its pipeline, which supplies...

|May 13, 2021 at 7:01 AM EDT - Updated May 13 at 10:32 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - AAA Carolinas is warning gas prices likely won’t fall quickly despite a pipeline supplying much of the East Coast’s fuel began to come back online Wednesday following a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline began to restart operations around 5 p.m. Wednesday, nearly a week after the company learned it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack.That cyberattack led the company to shut down its pipeline, which supplies...

View Comments ASHEVILLE - With the Colonial Pipeline flowing again and sporadic shipments of fuel reaching gas stations, outages caused by a ransomware attack show signs of slowly abating. Still, Asheville is not quite out of the woods, with data from GasBuddy, a travel and navigation app tracking gas prices — and, in a crisis, outages — throughout North America showing a high percentage of dry gas stations across the state. At 8:12 a.m. May 13, the app showed 71% of gas stations in Nort...