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The Colonial Pipeline spill has caused 6 states (Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina) to declare a state of emergency. Gasoline (petrol) prices on the east coast are likely to spike. Yet, most puzzling is how this vast emergency and its likely effect on cost of living has gone unnoticed by mainstream media outlets. The pipeline is owned by Koch Industries: is this why the media is silent?
[Are there any Soylentils in the affected area who can corroborate this story? Have you heard of the spill, seen long gas lines, or any price gouging? -Ed.]
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Six US States Declare Emergency after Major Gasoline Pipeline Spill; Media Almost Silent
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @01:08PM
It's also because this mostly affects the southeast. The very populous northeast part of the country isn't as affected because they also get gasoline via the major northeast seaports and refineries. Not sure why the original submitter decided there is some sort of media coverup going on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @07:15PM
Your comment seems to assume that there are no media outlets south of the Mason-Dixon.
...and the last time I was in an airliner at night over the southern part of Eastern Seaboard was years ago.
Even then, there were giant bands of light (populous areas) much of the way.
Additionally, the traditionally anti-union[1] attitude of The South had/has the remaining USA industrialists moving their operations from The Rust Belt to places southward.
...and Atlanta, Charlotte, and the Research Triangle area, as examples, are huge and still growing like weeds.
I think you are working from a very old dataset.
I don't put this phenomenon on population concentrations at all.
I put it on the USAian brand of "Capitalism" (externalized costs), Reactionary politicians gutting the regulatory inspection budget, and crappy, corporate-friendly media giving lameoids a free pass.
In short: people not doing their jobs properly.
[1] I've heard it said that Southerners still subliminally think "Union Army" (Sherman) when they hear "union".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @10:08PM
No, I make so such assumption. My point is that this has not affected much of the country outside of the southeast. There has not been a huge increase in gas prices, and there have been no shortages. As others have pointed out, there has been plenty of coverage both regionally and nationally, and internationally. The biggest point of this story is showing itself to be the fact that the article submitter needs to poke his head up out of his media safe area to look around before crying Koch coverups.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:33AM
Southern California, USA here. Note this is a late post. I have noted no unusual spiking of prices over here, matter of fact the diesel fuel I use went down a nickel.
Here's a nationwide map of gas prices... [gasbuddy.com]
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]