The pipeline was immediately shut down due to ‘integrity issues’. The GasBuddy app collects information like prices and availability from gas stations and allows users to pinpoint which stations have gas.
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The shortages have left stations that still have gas with long, arduous lines for the pump. This QuikTrip gas station in Duluth, Georgia, seen on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, has run out of unleaded gasoline.
Scotland County drivers could see gasoline prices rise anywhere between five and 20 cents over the coming days following a pipeline leak in Alabama that carries gas to states up and down the east coast. Gas prices should start going back down in less than two weeks.
The governors of Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina declared states of emergency Thursday to lift rules limiting the number of hours fuel-delivery drivers can work, allowing them to travel further to pick up gas and deliver it to where it’s most needed.
Colonial expects to have a bypass of the leak in place by mid to late week.
Colonial Pipeline spokesman Steve Baker tells The Associated Press that testing is now being done on the line.
Colonial Pipeline announced Saturday it was beginning construction of a temporary pipeline that will bypass a leaking section of its main gasoline pipeline in Shelby County, Alabama.
“Due to a leak in a critical fuel pipeline in Alabama, which is now undergoing repairs, Georgia and other states have experienced interruptions in motor fuel supply”, Deal said in a statement.
AAA said that is what is driving up gas prices.
Virginia’s average price per gallon for regular gas increased 3 cents during the past week to Monday’s $2.03, which is an 11-cent increase from last month, according to AAA Tidewater.
Both North Carolina and Virginia are now in states of emergency after a major gas leak in Alabama.
The law doesn’t say what price constitutes gouging. The company says spilled gasoline is being taken to the storage facility for storage.
“It may actually cost an individual gas station more to go out and get gasoline to bring to their customers than they can actually charge the customers because of this legislation”, he said. He just returned from a road trip to Louisiana, where he helped people after the floods there, he said.
“I tried getting gas yesterday and a lot of the stations had no gas at all, except diesel”, Wargo said Monday.
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.
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According to the Georgia Consumer Protection Unit’s website, a two-step process has to occur in order for sky-high prices to be considered gouging. And authorities in SC said they had heard of “isolated cases” of gas stations running out of fuel.
