Its not a mess, plenty of fuel, dont believe the hysteria you are reading from the west coast.
The "event" is over, the press will keep it headlined until they run out of interest.
By plenty of fuel I mean, even when a station runs out, it was only because of the high volume of people topping tanks, their regular deliveries still come in and then back in business again. So you see photos of long lines only because those people wanted to top off their tanks, then running the station our of gas until their next delivery.
In less then two weeks, no one will even remember it happened. Hardly a catastrophe. It could of been.
I think it was a good thing to happen, to wake society up about the need for security. Amazing how one pipeline can affect such as HUGE portion of the country. So maybe now we can build some more delivery systems.
Once again, besides the media stories and photos of long lines and out of gas gas stations, there was always a place to buy gas in the southeast once a regular delivery came in. No one stayed home because of the event.
It was weird seeing stations out of gas all over, only because the rush to top off tanks, regular deliveries came in and the pumps started flowing again. Inconvenience for some I guess and could have been worse, but any event could be worse.