71 Percent of Charlotte Area Gas Stations out of Fuel; Police Warn of ‘Gas Crisis’

71 Percent of Charlotte Area Gas Stations out of Fuel; Police Warn of ‘Gas Crisis’
Out of service fuel nozzles are covered in plastic on a gas pump at a gas station in Waynesville, N.C., on May 11, 2021. Martin Brossman via Reuters
Jack Phillips
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About 71 percent of gas stations in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area are completely out of gas, as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police described the situation as a “gas crisis” and requested that nonessential travel be avoided.

Patrick De Haan, a top analyst for GasBuddy, said that 78 percent of gas stations in the Greenville area have no gas, and 72 percent of Raleigh-Durham stations, 71 percent of Charlotte-area stations, 69 percent of stations around Greenville, and 65 percent of Norfolk-area stations are out of gas.
Jack Phillips
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