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First Valero Refinery, Now Largest U.S. Gasoline Pipeline Damaged In Georgia Colonial Pipeline's Line 1, the largest U.S. gasoline pipeline running from Houston toward the East Coast, has halted operations after a third-party work crew damaged a section of the line in Georgia. Bloomberg reported that the line stopped shipping fuel after the damage occurred on Tuesday in Paulding County, Georgia. "Line 1 is out of service while our team coordinates response and repair efforts," Colonial said in a statement cited by the outlet. The outage hits a critical fuel artery that...

Europe's Diesel Shortage Is A Problem Created By Political Design Authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com, The diesel agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will not solve the diesel shortage, considering the magnitude of the problem created by years of misguided, wrongly called "environmental policies." Complaining about diesel prices and the US-Russia deal while eliminating domestic refining capacity and bombing refineries is just another example of bureaucratic hypocrisy. Renewables are important, but they cannot substitute diesel, just as they have been unable to offset the importance of natural gas. Diesel is...

Abandoned Navy Base Costs Taxpayers $340,000 A Year For Internet Nobody Uses Authored by Matt White via TaskandPurpose.com, The mostly abandoned neighborhoods on Adak Island, Alaska, were once home to 5,000 Navy sailors and their families. But after 40 years as a supply depot, Naval Air Facility Adak closed in 1997, leaving scores of homes and buildings behind. Today, a small community of government workers and Alaska Native families have turned the streets and buildings of the former base into the town of Adak. The island, far out on the Aleutian Island chain,...