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|May 13, 2021 at 7:01 AM EDT - Updated May 13 at 10:32 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - AAA Carolinas is warning gas prices likely won’t fall quickly despite a pipeline supplying much of the East Coast’s fuel began to come back online Wednesday following a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline began to restart operations around 5 p.m. Wednesday, nearly a week after the company learned it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack.That cyberattack led the company to shut down its pipeline, which supplies gasoline to approximately 45% of the southeast. The company stressed in a news release that it will...

-- "My administration will be pursuing a global effort of ransomware attacks by transnational criminals who often use global money-laundering networks to carry them out," says U.S. President Joe Biden.   The temporary shutdown of the U.S. largest conduit for gasoline and diesel over the weekend has conspicuously triggered off a dire situation of triple predicament for the Joe Biden administration to cope with, which might escalate and deteriorate on the three fronts of fuel supply, energy development and cyber security if not addressed on urgent basis.     Fuel shortages have worsened acro...

Governors Warn Gas Shortage Caused by Panic Buying As 4 States Declare Emergency On 5/11/21 at 9:43 PM EDT The governors of Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia have declared states of emergency Tuesday night, as motorists along the Eastern Seaboard wait in long lines trying to buy high-priced gas during a fuel shortage experts warn is being caused by panic buying. Reports of possible gas shortages and climbing prices due to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack have pushed consumers out to the pumps to stock up on gas while they think they still can. Some people took to Twitter to share...

  Brandon Balkcom fills up his motorcycle as cars line up at a Citgo in Atlanta, Georgia on May 11, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Gasoline stations from Florida to Virginia were running on empty as motorists made a run on gas as the closure of the US' largest fuel pipeline entered its fifth day Tuesday after an alleged ransomware attack. Officials urged customers not to hoard gasoline as Colonial Pipeline, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, has forecast that it will need until the weekend to substantially restore operations of the 5,500-mile pipeline network that supplies nearly half of the ...

Customers swarm a COSTCO gas station amid fears of a gas shortage in Richmond, Va., Tuesday. The line at the facility extended around the entire building. The Colonial Pipeline hack that shut down the major gasoline and jet fuel pipeline to large swaths of the south and the east coast, is leading to temporary shortages. The cyberattack disabled computer systems responsible for fuel production from Texas to the northeast and now gas stations in the southeast are seeing panicked motorists lining up in droves to fill their tanks and jerrycans. In some cases, NPR's Camilla Domonoske reports, driv...