Panic Buying Amid Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack ‘Insane,’ Gasoline Distributor Says

Cars line up on Pine Plaza Drive for gas at the Costco in Apex, N.C., on May 12, 2021. Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP

In the wake of a ransomware attack that temporarily halted all of the Colonial Pipeline networks, it is important to understand how the subsequent gas shortage affects the average citizen.

“It’s really crazy,” president of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors, Inc. Maximo Alvarez told The Epoch Times Wednesday. “I have given at least ten interviews and in every interview, I always tell them at the beginning and at the end: ‘Please tell the people of South Florida, do not panic. We have plenty of gas.’ Still, not one station, not one reporter has mentioned to the people of Florida ‘Do not to panic. We have plenty of gas.’”