The United States is not dealing with a gasoline shortage, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday, as hundreds of stations reported running out of gas. “This is why we know that we have gasoline, we just have to get it to the right places. That’s why I want to encourage people people: it’s not that we have a gasoline shortage, it’s that we have this supply crunch,” she told reporters at the White House in Washington. “Things will be back to normal soon, and we are asking people not to hoard,” she added. The so-called crunch is primarily in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. Those states typically draw about 70 percent of their gas supply from the Colonial Pipeline that was taken offline in response to a cyberattack. Data from GasBuddy, which tracks gas availability and prices, showed that 7.6 percent of gas stations in Virginia and 7.5 …