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| Motorists lined up for gas Tuesday in Scotland Neck, N.C. (News and Observer photo by Robert Willett) |
Rural areas, which are more likely to be at or near the end of fuel-truck routes, have seen panic buying due to the shutdown of a major fuel pipeline from a Russian cyberattack, and some are running short.
"More than 1,000 gas stations in the Southeast reported running out of fuel," The Associated Press reports. "Government officials acted swiftly to waive safety and environmental rules to speed the delivery of fuel by truck, ship or rail to motorists and airports, even as they sought to assure the public that there was no cause for alarm."
"Gasoline has been in short supply at stations in several southern Kentucky towns," reports Lexington's WKYT. "It started Monday in Clinton County, then spread to Wayne County." Both are on the Tennessee border and get most of their fuel from Tennessee.
Recent problems may have made motorists more wary of supplies. Darrell Smith of Priceless Gas in Monticello said that in recent weeks his station has "had rolling outages because there’s no drivers to drive the trucks to bring the gas in. It’s a two-fold problem right now."
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