STATE OF EMERGENCY in 17 States.
17, huh??
Starts in Houston, no less…..
Remember when the Trump admin ordered the Chinese consulate to close and they started burning documents???
Colonial supplies nearly half the east coast gasoline.
With no physical damage to the pipeline, sufficient PADD1 inventories and above seasonal gasoline imports into the region, only a long outage (likely more than 5 days) would materially tighten local supplies. The Southeast region is most at risk of shortages given tighter inventories in the PADD 1C region.