Former President Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden in the aftermath of the Colonial Pipeline attack, asking if he put his son Hunter Biden in charge of the nation’s energy.
“If there were long and horrible gas lines like this under President Trump, the Fake News would make it a national outrage!” Trump said in a statement Wednesday. “Did Joe Biden put Hunter in charge of our energy, with all of his Burisma experience? Even Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is lost!”
Trump’s comments come as much of the East Coast grapples with the fallout from a cyberattack on the nation’s largest oil pipeline, the Colonial Pipeline. The attack, which shut down the pipeline, caused several states to declare states of emergency that will temporarily lift restrictions on transporting oil by road.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday warned people against “hoarding” gasoline, which she said would create a “supply crunch.”
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“Much as there was no cause for, say, hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, there should be no cause for hoarding gasoline, especially in light of the fact that the pipeline should be substantially operational by the end of this week and over the weekend,” Granholm said at the White House press briefing.
The national average for a gallon of gas surpassed $3 for the first time since 2014 on Wednesday, with experts warning that delays to reopening the pipeline could affect the summer’s travel season.
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“Gas prices … shoot up like a rocket or like fireworks, and they come back down as slowly as a feather,” said John Townsend, manager of public and government affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic.
