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Gas situation slowly improving in Triangle, but some places still struggling to keep up

You'll have an easier time finding gas on Tuesday morning, but many of the state's gas stations are struggling to keep the pumps full.

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Kasey Cunningham
, WRAL reporter
RALEIGH, N.C. — You'll likely have an easier time finding gas in the Triangle on Tuesday morning, but many of the state's gas stations are struggling to keep the pumps full.

A GasBuddy report showed that 50% of the state's gas station's were out of fuel on Monday night. On Tuesday morning, that number dipped to 47% as some smaller towns in the Triangle were struggling to keep up with demand.

A roughly 11-mile drive down U.S. 401 from Raleigh to Fuquay-Varina found that 11 out of 19 stations had gas. Some Fuquay-Varina viewers reported having trouble finding gas. The Harris Teeter Fuel Center in Fuquay-Varina had gas as did the Sheetz at Highway 55 and Highway 401.

GasBuddy experts feel Memorial Day weekend is the target date for the gas situation being fully back to normal.

This mark comes after the Colonial Pipeline was hit with a ransomware attack on May 7, forcing them to proactively close down operations. At points last week, the situation brought on long lines of drivers at gas stations throughout the southeast, forcing the supply of gas to run out at some stations as companies struggled with distribution.

WRAL News reporters drove around the Triangle area on Monday to look at the gas situation firsthand. Our reporters found that lines were shorter, but fuel prices were higher.

The average price of gas was $2.96 a gallon in Wake County, $2.99 in Durham County and $2.92 in Cumberland County. Prices in Raleigh have risen 16 cents in the past week, according to a GasBuddy survey of 472 stations in the Oak City.

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