Sunday, August 27, 2017

Colonial Pipeline, Greensboro, Hurricane Harvey and gasoline supplies...


"Colonial Pipeline begins in Houston, Texas and ends in Linden, New Jersey, traversing 11 other states along the way. Our system includes 5,500 miles of pipe, services 7 airports directly and provides fuel to multiple Department of Defense installations each day. We have 15 storage tank locations strategically positioned along the pipeline to serve our customer’s needs and connect to more than 260 terminals."

http://www.colpipe.com/home/about-colonial/system-map
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Following the passage of Hurricane Ike in September 2008, this pipeline was operating at a severely reduced capacity due to a lack of supply from refineries in the Gulf Coast that had closed, causing gasoline shortages across the southeastern United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Pipeline