U.S. Fuel Supply Troubles Ease as Pipeline Shipments Resume
- Fuel suppliers use alternate methods to deliver gasoline
- National, state waivers helping reduce shortages in Southeast
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A surge in gasoline futures started to reverse as gas station operators began receiving fuel shipments along portions of the U.S. Eastern seaboard.
Colonial Pipeline is building a line that will bypass a segment of its 1.3 million-barrel-a-day gasoline mainline that now needs federal government approval to restart after a spill Sept. 9. The bypass connection will be finished this week, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley said Monday in a press conference.