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Say the rush is not necessary for now. the white house insists there are no widespread fuel shortages, but that has not stopped people from buying gas fast. oil analysts tell cnn that will lead to more than 1,000 stations running out of gas soon with the biggest impacts in georgia and tennessee. on monday demand jumped 40% in five states from florida to virginia. >> it is a very serious problem right now. >> reporter: 84-year-old bill has spent his entire career distributing gas to stations in virginia but with the colonial pipeline mostly offline the trucks are scrambling to fill up elsewhere...