America’s largest gasoline pipeline returned to operational status today after an explosion in Alabama six days ago killed one worker and injured five others.
Following repair delays caused by an interior fire, Colonial Pipeline Company announced that its Line 1 pipeline was restarted early Sunday morning. However, it will take several days for the fuel delivery supply chain to return to normal. The same goes for pump prices.
Southerners between Texas and South Carolina can expect to see resupply in a day, while North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland will have to wait an extra 24 hours. Meanwhile, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will see fuel returning sometime midweek.
Pump prices are expected to quickly return to normal, and the increases proved less severe than when the same pipeline sprung a leak back in September.
WSB-TV reports Atlanta as the hardest hit, with some prices 14 cents above the slightly elevated Georgia average over the weekend. South Carolina saw fuel up an extra two cents from last week, and it was roughly a penny more in Tennessee. However, according to GasBuddy, the September’s leak saw an immediate elevation of 12.3 cents at the end of the line in New Jersey.
In contrast to the leak, workers were present during the explosion and Colonial responded immediately. Last month, Line 1 saw roughly 250,000 gallons leak before anyone become aware of the issue.
The September leak also came at a time when supplies were already limited. Refineries were in the midst of switching to winter fuel blends and entering maintenance season, Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Service, told CNBC.
Colonial’s Line 1 transports more than 100 million gallons of fuel daily between Houston and New York City and serves more than 50 million people.
The National Transportation Safety Board is currently investigating the explosion, while the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is still investigating the cause of the September leak.
Paid $1.97 in Mobile, AL yesterday. I’ve seen it lower, but not much (I drove a couple hundred miles or more yesterday).
Took $20 to fully top off my Taurus’ tank from nearly E.
Here in the GTA Ontario…. Within 48 hours of that terrible explosion, gas shot up five cents a litre. . Rough math works out to .23 cents ? ..USD …US gallon
It’s no wonder small cars just ain’t selling.
True, however when I do get another car it might not be smaller just more efficient. My CX9 is not that good on gas and the new one is much better in both real world and EPA. However I am tempted to get a hybrid CUV of some type but I dont see one I like. If only the FLex was made this way I would have jumped on it by now.
Unless you live in the crap hole state of New Jersey where the gas tax just went up by 159% to the highest in country, throw in $10K property tax for a $500,000 house and it is not hard to think these politicians are bleeding us dry on purpose.
10 K …On a 500 K house ? Wow ! … And I thought we Canucks were ” over taxed” !!
There was a study recently that named NJ the worst state to live and the Newark area the worst in that state and to think I used to live there. No wonder I hated the place.
Only $10k on a $500,000 house? Mine is about that, and I pay $13k!
Your fuel taxes are not the highest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States
Oh but be sure to enjoy Obamacare/Medicaid!
Wiki has pricing as of July 2016, NJ gas tax went up November 1, 2016-as of now the highest in the nation.
I live in PA, which actually has the highest gas tax, and has for many years.
I pay $4k in taxes for a house worth maybe $180k now, so I’d suggest your $10k is a bargain. But that’s a very local issue, not a state one.
Get your facts straight. NJ does not have the highest gas tax.
Things are real bad here in ATL. Dont move here. It s horrible.
(Just lying to keep the crowds away. Dirt cheap and perfect weather. Left Detritus (DTW) and never looked back.
Perfect weather for you. Can’t imagine not living with four distinct seasons.
The four distinct seasons in Minnesota: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Road Construction.
thats funny
I live in FL and its North FL but still FL.
70 this morning when I woke up.
However it wont get past 75.
We do have four distinct seasons. They’re just more biased towards the warm side.
Average low in January is below freezing, average high around 50. Not exactly Chicago, but not San Antonio, either. I would disagree that the cost of living is dirt cheap, I would say it’s moderate.
You are right..there is nothing dirt cheap about the ATL unless you just moved from San Francisco or Hawaii.
Are we living in the same metropolis? Our traffic looks like “Fury Road” these days, only parked in 100-degree heat. We have no plan or solution for our infrastructure and transportation woes, and to top it off, we’re running out of water.
It ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, folks.
Isn’t the Department of Homeland Security supposed to be involved in this sort of thing? Such an obvious weak point–our fuel infrastructure–can’t be going unnoticed by the terrorists, whom we were told are around every corner.
No, they only care about security theatre. Gotta make people “feel” safe even if they’re not doing much in reality.
I’ll take comfort in knowing my wife will get frisked at the airport while thousands of miles of pipeline apparently go without redundancy.
I’m in N. metro Atlanta. My wife went to the local QuikTrip to fill up yesterday, they did have 87 octane, but were out of the other two grades.
If there’s any sort of supply disruption it’s usually QuikTrip that has problems, I get the impression they run their inventories pretty lean.