Colonial Pipeline plans to shut down a key pipeline today that supplies gasoline to the South due to Harvey’s effect on its facilities west of Lake Charles.
The pipeline provides about 40% of the South’s gasoline.
The Georgia-based company had already closed down another line that transports primarily diesel and aviation fuels. In September 2016, a leak and gas spill in Alabama that closed the Colonial Pipeline led to days of empty gas station pumps and higher prices in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
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The company didn’t say how long it expects the closure to last, saying it will know more when workers can evaluate its facilities.
