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Do Not Panic over Gas
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White House urges Americans not to hoard gas as hacked pipeline remains shut LAUREN EGAN |CONTRIBUTED
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he White House urged Americans not to hoard gas Tuesday as the Colonial Pipeline, a major supplier of fuel to the Southeast, remained largely shut down for a fifth day following a ransomware attack by hackers on Friday. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that the areas most impacted by the pipeline closure — North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Southern Virginia — would likely experience a "supply crunch" but not a "gasoline shortage." "Much as there was no cause for hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, there should be no cause for hoarding gasoline especially in light of the fact that pipeline should be substantially operational by the end of this week and over the weekend," Granholm said, speaking to reporters at the daily White House press briefing. A small but increasing number of gas stations along the East Coast reported fuel shortages Tuesday, with six states estimated to have gas station outages. Fuel demand for motorists has also jumped over 30 percent in the East in the past week, according to data collected by price and fuel tracker GasBuddy. Colonial Pipeline is expected to make a decision by the end of Wednesday on whether to fully restart the pipeline, Granholm said. Still, it will still take a few days for the pipeline to ramp back up to normal production levels. Granholm acknowledged that "the next few days are going to be challenging" but said that she wanted to encourage the public that "things will be back to normal soon and that we're asking people not to hoard and know that we are all over this." The Biden administration has looked for alternate ways to de-
GAS: Colonial Pipeline is expected to make a decision by the end of Wednesday on whether to fully restart the pipeline. | Photo Credit: © Provided by NBC News
JENNIFER GRANHOLM: The Energy Secretary said that the areas most impacted by the pipeline closure — North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Southern Virginia — would likely experience a "supply crunch" but not a "gasoline shortage." | Photo source: NPR.org
liver fuel to the impacted areas in order to avoid supply shortages. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that the he was preparing to temporarily wave the Jones Act, which would allow foreign-flagged ships and vessels to deliver fuel to the Eastern seaboard, should the need arise. "That need is not necessarily yet confirmed, but we wanted to be poised at the president's direction to be ready and to be able to act immediately," Mayorkas said.
The Environmental Protection Agency also issued a waiver Tuesday to allow the impacted states to sell non-compliant fuel to boost their available supply. The Department of Transportation is also working to enlist rail operators to transport fuel to the affected areas. The Biden administration on Sunday also issued an emergency declaration to allow truckers to drive on more overtime hours and less sleep than federal restrictions normally allow in an effort to deliver more oil and gas. The Colonial Pipeline, which provides nearly half of the gasoline and fuels used on the East Coast, shut down all of its operations Friday after hackers broke into some of its networks. The attack sparked fresh fears about the vulnerability of the U.S.'s energy infrastructure to cyberattacks and raised concerns about the supply and price of oil and gas. The FBI said Monday that the culprit of the hack is a strain of ransomware called DarkSide, believed to be operated by a Russian cybercrime gang referred to by the same name. President Joe Biden said Monday that there was no evidence that the Russian government was involved in the hack.
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t. San Jacinto College (MSJC) student James Crawford has been awarded a 2021 Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The 19-year-old Hemet resident is one of only 72 high-achieving community college students nationwide to receive the highly competitive scholarship, which provides students with up to $40,000 a year to complete their bachelor's degrees. Crawford is majoring in Political Science and Liberal Arts-Social & Behavioral Sciences. "I am so grateful, and surprised, for this recognition by the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Foundation," said Crawford, who plans to graduate from MSJC on May 27 and transfer to UC Berkeley. "I'm even more thankful to the amazing faculty members at MSJC who have believed in me, guided me, and who have offered me some really impactful opportunities at being a leader. I truly do need to publicly thank Professors Nicholis Zappia and Stacey Searl-Chapin, and SI Coordinator Janice Levasseur." "I think it's so easy in this fully virtual environment to lose a sense of oneself and become unmotivated," he said. "This recognition really has confirmed to me that I am on the right path for myself." Dr. Roger Schultz, Superintendent/President of Mt. San Jacinto College, commended Crawford on his successes while at MSJC. "This is an amazing accomplishment and James is very de-
MSJC: Mt. San Jacinto College Political Science and Liberal Arts-Social & Behavioral Sciences major James Crawford has been awarded a 2021 Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. | Photo Courtesy of Mt. San Jacinto College
serving of this award. We're so proud and can't wait to see what he accomplishes at UC Berkeley and beyond," he said. "Achievements like these happen when you have great, supportive faculty and staff like we do who are truly dedicated to helping our students succeed." At MSJC, Crawford is a member of PTK and the Political Science Club and serves as a mentor for the Honors Enrichment and Supplemental Instruction programs. He also serves as a student representative on the MSJC Curriculum Committee. In the community, he serves on the executive board for the Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto, where he's part of the scholarship subcommittee and was on the voter registration and voter outreach subcommittee and the youth outreach subcom-
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I think it's so easy in this fully virtual environment to lose a sense of oneself and become unmotivated. This recognition really has confirmed to me that I am on the right path for myself." JAMES CRAWFORD MT. SAN JACINTO COLLEGE POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LIBERAL ARTS-SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
An Original Idea Spreads From Hemet Throughout Southern California RUSTY STRAIT | SENIOR REPORTER
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t never ceases to amaze me how one story can lead to another. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a local coffee shop
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that changed its name to The Destination Smokehouse and Eatery, expecting that to be the whole story. But it wasn’t. A previous meeting in a barbershop
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On May 13, 1985
GIANT SMOKER | Photo by Rusty Strait.
On May 15, 1942
In Philadelphia, police begin evacuating people from their homes in order to prepare for an operation against MOVE, a radical cult group. MOVE had begun assembling a large arsenal and building bunkers in their row house. The government gave $1.5 million to three survivors of the raid.
Lt. Ronald Reagan, a cavalry officer, applies for reassignment to the Army Air Force. As a public relations officer, the actor and future president produced military training, morale and propaganda films.
On May 14, 1999
The first-ever Academy Awards ceremony is held, with some 270 people in attendance. Movies were just making the transition from silent films to "talkies," but all the nominated films were without sound.
President Bill Clinton apologizes directly to Chinese President Jiang Zemin on the phone for the accidental NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. China refused Clinton's calls for four days and banned American films and music in protest.
On May 16, 1929
On May 17, 1965 After a two-year investigation, the FBI declares
the supposedly pornographic lyrics of "Louie Louie" to be officially unintelligible.
On May 18, 1980
Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, violently erupts. The massive blast killed 57 people and leveled nearly all vegetation as far as 12 miles away.
On May 19, 1997
A 3-year-old boy dies of avian influenza in Hong Kong. Before the outbreak was controlled, six people were dead and 1.6 million domestic fowl were destroyed. The virus mutated and caused 62 more human deaths in Asia by 2005.
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