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Why Americans are panic buying fuel -- and why you shouldn't
CNN
A growing number of gas stations along the East Coast are without fuel as nervous drivers aggressively fill up their tanks following a ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline, a critical artery for gasoline.
The panic-buying threatens to exacerbate the supply shock. US gasoline demand climbed by 14% on Tuesday compared with the week before, according to GasBuddy, an app that tracks fuel prices and demand. Here's how we got to this point.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250206034049.jpg)
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