Fox News’ purported “straight news” and opinion personalities are working together to create histrionic coverage around the shutdown of the Colonial fuel pipeline, reportedly at the hands of criminal Russian hackers known as DarkSide, in an effort to depict a dystopian national breakdown on the scale of the oil crises and long gas lines of the 1970s. The pipeline shutdown has set off a wave of panic-buying, which only makes the situation worse in a similar manner to the mass run on toilet paper last year at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Fox has also taken advantage of this momentary disruption to push a series of talking points ranging from calls to build even more pipelines or even to start a war. And now, the network says, President Joe Biden’s leadership in this singular event is just like President Jimmy Carter’s handling of the long gas lines in the 1970s — or even worse.