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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, @11:41PM
> The leak dumped 250'000 gallons of fuel
Now its 335,000 gallons. The way these things go it will probably turn out to be significantly more. These numbers never go down.
But the bigger problem is that the pipeline is turned off. So even though its not spilling, its not operating.
(Score: 2) by VanessaE on Tuesday September 20 2016, @12:41PM
I might tend to agree, but according to Colonial, they switched the load over to "Line 2" (which runs more or less parallel to the broken pipe) before the weekend was up; "Line 1" may take some time to repair, but I doubt it'll be very long. Meanwhile, as I understand it, that pipe carried about 37 million gallons of gasoline a day, so not even 10 percent of the total country's usage.
I dunno, I still say the whole thing was overblown massively, all as a money grab.
I'll be glad when solar and other renewables, and cars powered by them, take over. Fuck petroleum.