Panic Buying Leads to Most Surreal Warning: Don’t Put Gas in Plastic Bags

Remember how we sad-laughed at the panic buying of early 2020 and the thought of all those supermarket shelves, suddenly empty of toilet paper, flour or pasta? That is an entirely new level of crazy—and dangerous, too. Over the weekend, a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, the country’s largest pipeline, shut it down. Operations will resume in full this week, with the backed supplies believed to pick up again by ...