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Gas shortage concerns: Is this just due to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack? Is the shut down of the Colonial Pipeline causing a gas shortage? Or is there something else behind it? Author: Spencer Collins Updated: 12:04 AM EDT May 12, 2021 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — We’ve seen images of gas station after gas station empty. It's happening in the Carolinas as well as up and down the east coast. WCNC Charlotte went to the experts to find out -- is this just due to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack? Our sources are Jim Iuorio, an oil expert with TJM Institutional Servi...

Largest US pipeline to restart operations after hack shut it down for nearly a week Oliver Milman © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA Colonial Pipeline was set to restart operations on Wednesday evening, after a cyber-attack forced the company to shut down the nation’s largest fuel pipeline for nearly a week, the US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, said. “We just got off the phone with Colonial Pipeline CEO. They are restarting pipeline operations today at – 5pm,” Granholm wrote in a post on Twitter. We just got off the phone with #ColonialP...

The Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston to Linden, New Jersey, supplies the East Coast with 45% of its gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and heating oil. Ransomware locks companies and agencies out of their own data using encryption, essentially holding the organization's information hostage until a ransom is paid and instructions to reverse the encryption are supplied by the attackers in return. Prices have already seen an upturn due to the easement of many COVID-19-related shutdown protocols, said Brian Bethune, a professor of applied economics at Boston College, and so far, the attack on...

These cities are reporting the most gas station outages A sign warns consumers on the availability of gasoline at a RaceTrac gas station on May 11, in Smyrna, Georgia. Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images Gas stations throughout the Southeast are running out of fuel as Americans continue to panic-buy following the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. The supply crunch appears to be much worse in some major metro areas. Here's a look at some of the hardest-hit cities, according to GasBuddy, an app that tracks fuel demand, prices and outages. Nearly three-quarters — 73% — of gas stations in Pensacola...

North Carolina governor says panic buying caused the gas supply problem From CNN’s Keith Allen North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper CNN North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper told CNN Wednesday that panic buying caused a gas supply problem in his state. With an estimated 70% of Charlotte’s gas stations out of fuel, and price gouging complaints piling up across the state, Cooper told CNN's Jake Tapper that they are working on multiple fronts to mitigate the problems at-hand. “I want this gas supply problem fixed as quickly as possible, and we are working with the local and federal officials, and...