About 25 percent of gasoline stations in North Carolina have run out of fuel as of Wednesday morning, as states from New Jersey to Florida suffer from a truck driver shortage combined with the fallout from a pipeline operator’s network being breached. Some 24.8 percent of the 5,273 fuel stations in North Carolina were out of gas as of 6 a.m. Central Time, according to GasBuddy, a travel and navigation service that tracks prices and availability. That included 71 percent of stations in and around Charlotte. That was the highest among states impacted by the Colonial Pipeline being taken offline as the company deals with a cyberattack. An already-existing shortage of truck drivers has made moving gas inventories to stations more difficult. As Americans rush to fill up their tanks, more and more stations are having to put bags over their pumps. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, along with multiple other …
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