The so called gas pipe break that has gas prices rising

[cosmictraveler]

So I'm watching the news about this so called gas pipe break but as yet I've seen no actual footage of the 250,000 gal leak. All I see is a large pipe being worked on but that work doesn't look like a break but more like a by pass valve. So where are the helicopters to show everyone this big break? It seems we are being screwed again to pay higher prices and suffer gas outages everywhere on the Eastern coast. Does anyone else want to see this break and massive oil spill that the gas company tells us about?

[C C]

Yep, images of "repair work underway at site of the gasoline spill" are as indirect a glimpse of it as I've come across; plus stock images / footage of generic examples of pipeline breaks. Also a range of diverse images reflecting the supposed side-effects of it.

[cosmictraveler]

That's the news for you. They don't tell you what you need to know but only what they want to believe. This country is going downhill fast when the news is controlling everything.

[Zinjanthropos]

In the future...will electricity rates go up when you can't plug your car in because of a hydro failure that forces you to tap into a Solar Farm?

[cosmictraveler]

Already there are places that still are charging people a stiff fee just to be hooked up to their power supplies even if you don't use them. So the power companies never loose it would seem.

[Zinjanthropos]

Well if a super long lasting battery ever gets invented then you won't have to worry about gas line breaks. Near where I live there is actually a little hamlet named Gasline, believe it or not. I'm in natural gas territory, plenty of people still have wells on their property around here.

[scheherazade]

A quick search brought up the following information. Sounds like the emergency action was taken to prevent price gouging by those who wish to capitalize by exaggerating the event. Six to eight thousand barrels is indeed an environmental disaster but very small compared to the volume of 2.6 MILLION barrels moved each day. Pretty sad if distributors are really as cutthroat as implied.

"Shippers have also begun using tankers to transport gasoline from the Gulf Coast to the areas impacted by the pipeline spill, according to Reuters.

The leak was discovered at a Colonial Pipeline operated gasoline line in Alabama on September 9.

Colonial said on Friday that, based on conservative evaporation models and assumption, an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 barrels of fluid were released from the Line 1 pipeline.

The company said on Thursday that it expects a full restart on the line sometime next week.

A mining inspector first detected a gasoline order on a mining property in Shelby County, Alabama earlier this month, Colonial said.

Colonial shut down two pipelines that are in the immediate vicinity of where the odor was detected and confirmed that a release occurred.

Colonial has mobilized a coordinated response effort with federal, state and local agencies as well as local emergency responders.

The company began excavations operations on Line 1 on September 17 to unearth and repair the damaged pipeline section.

Colonial has also begun constructing a bypass line that will allow Line 1 to return to service.

Line 1 transports gasoline from Gulf Coast refiners to delivery locations in the Southeast and along the Eastern seaboard.

Colonial said on Sunday that it is also currently shipping “significant volumes of gasoline” on Line 2, the company’s distillate mainline, to help offset the impact of the Line 1 disruption.

The company added that last week it gathered gasoline from Gulf Coast refiners in order to ship supplies on its distillate line to markets throughout the affected region.

“As a result, following around-the-clock operations to effect this contingency plan, supplies of gasoline have been delivered and/or are in route to terminal locations in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina,” Colonial Pipeline said.

During normal operations, the company’s pipeline system transports about 2.6 million barrels of refined products each day, with Line 1 accounting for half of that volume."

https://petroglobalnews.com/2016/09/emer...line-leak/

[cosmictraveler]

So the suppliers didn't increase the prices to the retailers at all but the retailers are charging 30 percent more at some stations for the gas they are getting. Nice way to gouge people but get away with it since the government isn't taking any of those retailers to court.