{"id":48718,"date":"2021-05-12T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48718"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:14:43","slug":"deadly-consequences-dont-put-gas-in-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/deadly-consequences-dont-put-gas-in-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deadly consequences&#8217; | Don&#8217;t put gas in plastic bags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gas has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/60-of-metro-atlanta-gas-stations-reportedly-out-of-gas\/85-7a223d39-cd54-4d10-80c0-67b35428c398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">become a premium<\/a>&nbsp;over the past few days as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/gas-prices-georgia-pipeline-shutdown\/85-7313663b-80b7-4ab3-a5aa-5519e48dbbce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pipeline shutdown<\/a>&nbsp;has sent drivers into a frenzy to fill up their tanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos on social media show long lines with people filling up cars, portable gas containers &#8212; <strong>and plastic bags.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One video on social media with millions of views, which we have not independently verified, shows woman at a gas pump carrying a plastic bag with what looks like gasoline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gas in plastic bag why???\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MXeUJRD9lU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the US Consumer Product Safety Commissioner has come out and said don&#8217;t do it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We know this sounds simple, but when people get desperate they stop thinking clearly. They take risks that can have deadly consequences. If you know someone who is thinking about bringing a container not meant for fuel to get gas, please let them know it&#8217;s dangerous,&#8221; they wrote on social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/pipeline-cyberattack-enters-third-day\/507-232c50e4-a2f2-41c0-a735-87fafe0b64b2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colonial Pipeline<\/a>, whose operator is based right here in Alpharetta, Georgia, is one of the nation&#8217;s largest sources of fuel and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/us-pipeline-company-halts-some-operations-cyberattack\/507-c3ea070a-92df-4627-9dcb-e34c35484345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remains mostly shut down<\/a>&nbsp;after a cyberattack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It runs from Texas to New Jersey, carrying more than 100 million barrels of fuel every day. That&#8217;s everything from gasoline to heating oil and jet fuel that supplies Atlanta&#8217;s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. It&#8217;s responsible for almost half of the entire East Coast&#8217;s fuel supply.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas has&nbsp;become a premium&nbsp;over the past few days as a&nbsp;pipeline shutdown&nbsp;has sent drivers into a frenzy to fill up their tanks. Photos on social media show long lines with people&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}