China News Service, May 17th. According to Reuters, as the nation’s largest oil pipeline system that was hacked a few days ago resumed operations, on the 16th local time, the gasoline shortage that plagued the east coast of the United States slowly eased. Many gas stations received gasoline supplies.
Previously, because the supply could not be reached, and the driver was worried that the lack of fuel would be delayed for a long time and therefore hoarded gasoline, thousands of gas stations had no gas to refill for a while.
On May 11, 2021 local time, cars lined up to refuel near a residential area in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Colonial Pipeline Company spokesman Eric said in an email that Colonier has now returned to normal delivery levels, but it will take some time for the supply chain to fully recover.
According to the tracking company GasBuddy, in South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia, the number of gas stations without gas is less than half.
But in Washington, DC, about 80% of gas stations are still out of gas.
More than half of the gas stations in North Carolina still have no gas to sell.
On the 15th local time, US gasoline demand fell by nearly 15% compared to the 8th, because drivers reduced their fuel storage.
On the 7th, the Colonial Pipeline system of the United States was attacked by a hacker team from the "dark side", which paralyzed the "oil arteries" of the United States.
The company’s 8,900-kilometer transportation system was forced to shut down for six days. This was the most devastating cyber attack on record, resulting in millions of barrels of gasoline and diesel that could not be sent to oil storage in the eastern United States. tank.