‘Panic-buying’ leaving gas stations dry amid Colonial Pipeline shutdown WSOCTV.com News Staff
Many local gas stations are running out of fuel while others are raising prices amid the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. Channel 9 was out at several gas stations early Wednesday and most of them had cars lined up with drivers waiting to fill their tanks. One driver said he had waited for more than four hours before sunrise to fill up.
Some drivers have been waiting for hours overnight to fuel up at this gas station along Ballantyne Commons Parkway. I talked to one driver who told me he ran out of gas & had to push his car to the one working pump here. @wsoctvpic.twitter.com/WA9FpoNPxx Anthony Kustura (@AnthonyWSOC9) May 12, 2021
GasBuddy: More than 40% of SC gas stations are out of gas
Drivers urged to be patient, not refuel unless they have to Drivers purchase gasoline Tuesday at a station on Island Park Drive on Daniel Island. (Source: Michael Cheung) By Patrick Phillips | May 12, 2021 at 10:28 AM EDT - Updated May 12 at 2:42 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Despite pleas from leaders and officials to not panic-buy gasoline, a larger number of South Carolina gas stations were running on empty Wednesday, a petroleum analyst says.
GasBuddy’s Patrick DeHaan said that as of Wednesday afternoon, 42% of the Palmetto State’s gas stations had run out, up from 13.4% reported earlier Wednesday morning.
|May 12, 2021 at 10:28 AM EDT - Updated May 12 at 10:35 AM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Despite pleas from leaders and officials to not panic-buy gasoline, gas stations across the state are running on empty, a petroleum analyst says.
GasBuddy’s Patrick DeHaan said that as of Wednesday morning, 13.4% of the state’s gas stations are without gas.
Those outages are part of nearly 1,800 stations reported with no gas across, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and Virginia, he said.
As of 7 a.m., he said South Carolina was still faring better than some other states in terms of gas stations that had run out of fuel.