5 Min Read As top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline shut its entire network causing fuel shortages across the Southeast, social media users criticized U.S. President Joe Biden’s “closure” of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Colonial Pipeline closed due to a cyberattack is unrelated to the Keystone Pipeline XL Pipeline, which was cancelled by Biden in January. “When you can’t find gas, remember who executively ordered the Keystone Pipeline to close,” say the posts (here , here , here). The Colonial Pipeline, which stretches 5,500 miles (8,850 km) from U.S. Gulf Coast oil refineries to consumers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeast states, was disabled by a ransomware attack on May 7, as shown on the U.S. Energy Information Administration government website here , on the Colonial Pipeline website here and reported by Reuters here .