In early September, a leak on Line 1 of the Colonial Pipeline occurred in Alabama and pressured prices in southeast states sharply higher, including week-over-week increases of 7 cents or more in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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“Tomorrow’s restart of the main gasoline line is a key milestone”, Baker said.
We certainly expect the gas prices to increase, certainly while this line is under fix and not at full capacity, AAA spokesman Garrett Townsend said Monday.
“My wife just called me and told I better top off my tank before the prices go up”, he said.
Colonial already had said that they would need to build a bypass line instead of fixing the original leaking line in Shelby County, Alabama.
The auto club AAA reports that gas prices continue to climb in several southern states after a pipeline leak in Alabama slowed the flow of fuel across the South.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
“We lost a pipeline, so we lost some supply from down south where most of the gas comes from”, said Carrol Beinstock, she teaches in the Department of Marketing at Radford University.
Gov. Nathan Deal issued an executive order Monday morning that prohibits price gouging.
Saloom and his wife are driving through Memphis from Kentucky and saw firsthand how hard it can be to find gas in some parts of the state right now. The company is in the midst of constructing a bypass that circumvents the leak.
Drivers in Atlanta area found some pumps completely dry or they had to pay 20 cents more because, according to a sign on the pump, the gas had to be pulled from Savannah.
The prices at the pump are rudely getting our attention this week as they jump 10 cents a gallon or more from where they were just last week. It’s unclear when the spill actually started.
“At this point, there’s not any indication that we’ve seen in our area that we’re going to have a real shortage of gas”, AAA Tidewater Virginia spokeswoman Georjeane Blumling said.
Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, said the Colonial Pipeline leak “is among the largest outages of fuel since Superstorm Sandy in 2012”.
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Pump prices in Alabama ticked up to $2.01 on Monday while prices in Tennessee rose almost 3 cents to $2.13 from $2.10 on Sunday, according to the AAA. He was finally able to fill his orange 1973 Datsun 240z at a Kroger gas station in southeast Atlanta, after seeing people post on an online neighborhood message board that the station had gas. Other gas stations were limiting the amount of fuel each customer could purchase, and some had signs stating that they were out of regular.
