"Everybody's out here buying from the same gas pumps, so the lines are long, some are out - you've really got to look for it," said Ron Brown, who operates Ron's Appalachian Trail Shuttles. They depend on cars and vans to access the trail and get supplies. The shutdown even affected hikers long the Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. Two people were charged with assault after spitting in each other's faces over spots in a line at a Marathon station in Knightdale, North Carolina, on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The search for working gas pumps has frayed the nerves of some drivers. Other governors urged people not to hoard supplies.Ĭooper reiterated calls for residents not to make any unnecessary trips to the pump. The governors of both Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency to help ensure access to gasoline. Washington, D.C., was among the hardest-hit locations, with 73% of stations out, the site's tracking service showed. states Thursday.Ībout 70% of North Carolina's gas stations were still without fuel amid panic-buying and about half the stations in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia were tapped out, reported. The distribution problems, compounded with the panic-buying, have been draining supplies at thousands of gas stations in the Southeast.ĭrivers found gas pumps shrouded in plastic bags at tapped-out service stations across more than a dozen U.S. But, at the Wilmington port, there is only room for two barges, and there's a significant wait time there for fuel trucks to fill up. In the meantime, trucks, trains and even barges are hauling gasoline. There is no gasoline shortage in the U.S., according to government officials and energy analysts. It will take "several days" for things to return to normal, and some areas may experience "intermittent service interruptions during this start-up period," the company said. And we have to - now they have to safely and fully return to normal operations." It had never been fully shut down its entire history, and so - so fully. This is not like flicking on a light switch. "We will not feel the effects at the pump immediately. President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House on Thursday, urged Americans: "Don't panic." But he acknowledged it would take into next week for the situation to return to normal. "There is available fuel supply in and around our state, and it will take time for tankers to move that supply to the stations that are experiencing shortages." "Now that Colonial has restarted pipeline operations, we will see a gradually increasing return to normal conditions that will take several days," Governor Roy Cooper said Thursday in a news release.
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