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Gas Panic Is America’s Latest Spasm of Pandemic Hoarding Justin Rohrlich © Provided by The Daily Beast Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Late last week, the Colonial Pipeline, a key conduit for gas and fuel across America, was hit by a so-called ransomware cyberattack. The company has not yet revealed the system vulnerability exploited by DarkSide, the possibly Russia-linked group the FBI says was behind the hack. But it had to shut down its operation, and the delay sparked concerns about gas shortages. By Tuesday, reports of shortages were hurtling across the Internet. But the numbers show a less extreme version of reality. Across Virginia and North Carolina, roughly 7 percent of gas stations were out of fuel Tuesday morning, according to crowdsourced figures provided to The Daily Beast by GasBuddy, a service that tracks petroleum prices. The data shows about 5 percent of gas stations in Georgia had run dry, 3 percent in Florida, and 2 percent in South Carolina. (Sou

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