Joe Biden’s White House refused to get involved to offer relief, and Anne Neuberger of the Cyber & Emerging Technology, said that Colonial is a “private company” and that the federal government will defer to it to decide whether to pay the ransom. Tucker Carlson pointed out that the Biden administration is “situationally Libertarian” when it benefits them. Biden’s Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo claimed that cyberattacks like the one that hit the Colonial pipeline last week are “here to stay.” Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office and has paused the leasing of federal lands for oil and gas development. Americans are paying over $45 billion more for gasoline when compared to last year due to his policy decisions. This is the Green New Deal. Tucker Carlson said that bad federal policies are intentionally distorting the price of everything in this country.
UPDATE: Colonial reportedly paid the extortionists $5 million in untraceable cryptocurrency shortly after they hacked the system, but the tool tool that the hackers provided to restore the system was so slow that the company opted to use its own backups to help restore it.
Virginia and Florida declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, following North Carolina’s declaration the day before, as the disruption in pipeline operations led to over 1,000 gas stations across a dozen states running out of fuel, according to S&P’s Oil Price Information Service.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 27% of stations in North Carolina’s Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson metro area were dry, according to GasBuddy, an app helping motorists find deals at the pump. So were 31% of pumps in Raleigh and 29% in Charlotte. Atlanta, Georgia reported a 30% outage as well. GasBuddy crashed repeatedly on Tuesday due to surging demand.
One would not know this from New York Times’ reporting, however. The newspaper claimed that since the pipeline’s shutdown due to a ransomware attack, “there have been no long lines or major price hikes for gas.”
"That is a private sector decision": White House officials say they have not offered advice to Colonial Pipeline on whether to pay ransom to hackers who shut down a vital U.S. pipeline https://t.co/5QoCH046As pic.twitter.com/mAnhcfLiQ8
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 10, 2021
That’s priceless, the FBI blaming “DarkSide’. All theatrics people. ‘DarkSide’ IS FBI or some other gov’t agency or they had nothing to do with it. But don’t kid yourself, this was done by those pulling the strings for everything else including fake global warming, the admitted spraying of geo-engineering, those that created Bin Laden, ISIS and others to present a fabricated ‘threat’, GMO’s, fraudulent viruses, and of course their main weapon vaccines. First they got us use to lining up for toilet paper, then food, and now gas. They are eliminating jobs to take away your ability to provide your… Read more »
This is just one of many to come. $6 a gal. by Christmas. Thanks for voting for Bye-then.
“… and has paused the leasing of federal lands for oil and gas development”
Since when did Washington DC, and military bases (start) have oil and gas development? The ONLY land that the federal government can own is 10 square miles that is Washington DC, and bases within states that had the approval of the states legislature to be bought from, and bases built there. Go read the US Constitution, the (supreme) contract for all who serve within our governments – state and federal, with states also having state Constitutions they must abide by.
CIA CREATES THE CHAOS, FBI COVERS IT UP, AND THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA INDOCTRINATES THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THEY HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR DECADES.