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Gas shortages at the pumps are spreading from the South to the Mid-Atlantic states, where Virginia and the District of Columbia have become some of the hardest hit areas after a cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline.

At their highs, five electric vehicle startups that went public through mergers with special purpose acquisition companies were worth $60 billion. The corrections that followed have been brutal.

House lawmakers advanced language authorizing $8 billion for the U.S. Postal Service to buy more electric vehicles as the agency modernizes its aging fleet.

President Joe Biden warned gasoline stations not to engage in any price gouging as motorists wait for fuel to start flowing reliably through the Colonial Pipeline, which reopened on May 12 after falling victim to a cyberattack.

Government agencies at the federal and state levels took a variety of measures — including some to help facilitate truck movement — in response to the cyberattack that temporarily halted operations for Colonial Pipeline.

Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on May 7, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, according to two people familiar with the transaction.

The Biden administration temporarily eased century-old U.S. shipping requirements so a single foreign tanker could transport gasoline and jet fuel to the East Coast, where the Colonial Pipeline outage caused tanks to run dry.

Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel pipeline, restarted operations May 12, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers.

Drivers waited in long lines at gas stations in the Southeast on May 12 after a hack of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline led to distribution problems and panic buying, draining supplies at thousands of gas stations.

Government agencies at the federal and state levels have taken measures — including steps to facilitate truck movement — as a response to the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline.