What company, which transports about 45 percent of all fuel consumed on the U.S. East Coast, has been working to get its systems back online following a ransomware cyberattack?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although the question does not provide any options, we can say that the meaning of the quote "Westward fled the refugees from this new Sahara, as if obedient to the old American tradition that westward lies the land of promise," means the following.

During the Dust Bowl years, farmers from the plains lived the worst conditions to farm the land. The dry weather and the lack of rain created dust storms that choked and killed the animals and the land was impossible to farm. This situation made things worse during the Great Depression years in the United States, That is why people decided to move to the Pacific West in order to find new life opportunities or starting from scratch. That is why, for some people, the west coast seemed like the promised land.

That quote is part of the text included in the book "Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America," written by Frederick Lewis Allen.