US President Joe Biden said that the country’s fuel supply will take time to normalise as the operator of a key fuel pipeline has restarted operations after a cybersecurity attack.
“This morning Colonial reported that fuel is beginning to flow to a majority of the markets that they service and they should be reaching full operational capacity as we speak,” Biden said at a White House briefing on Thursday.
“We’ll not feel the effects at the pump immediately. This is not like flicking on a light switch. This pipeline is 5,500 miles long,” Xinhua news agency quoted the President as saying.
He added that it will take “some time” for the pipeline to fully return to normal operations.
