Posted on 05/13/2022 7:34:37 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Trucking firms are warning employees of an “imminent fuel shortage in the Eastern half of the US.”
Trucking insiders are blaming this shortage on Joe Biden’s move to divert US fuel to Europe so they can ween off Russian oil.
Like Joe Biden’s other reckless policies, this will create havoc here in the United States.
Zero Hedge reported:
Major trucking fleets across the eastern half of the US are preparing for an “imminent” diesel shortage, according to logistics firm FreightWaves.
Founder and CEO of FreightWaves Craig Fuller said “3 very large fleets” are preparing for diesel pumps at fuel stations to run dry. Drivers of these fleets received notifications about fuel shortages that could materialize in the coming weeks across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions.
The trucking fleets are blaming the shortage on Joe Biden’s latest action to divert US fuel to Europe so they can ween off Russian oil.
Another Biden blunder. Not only is diesel gas at its highest price ever, but now there are shortages in the eastern half of the US.
This crisis will affect everyone.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Biden is helping everyone else except the US be it the Southern border, China, or Ukraine.
“destroy the petroleum industry”
Destroy? Big Oil is making record profits.
What action is that?
Certainly can't expect GP to explain anything.
Jet fuel is next...
The rats are seizing this opportunity to tear down as much of the country as they can. They have a one term President they can use as a scapegoat and they have both houses. The only thing that has saved us from total ruin was 2 D Senators who didn’t go along with killing the filibuster.
The first thing they need to do is STOP all deliveries within 100 miles of DC and the entire state of Delaware
This claim is preposterous. If US diesel is being shipped to Europe it's because the Europeans are willing to pay more, just like US natural gas is being turned into LNG and shipped there despite rising US prices.
The more likely cause is Biden's regulatory strangulation of the US economy. Every stage of fuel production and delivery is being strangled by the Federal government:
Leasing quashed
Methane and other EPA restrictions on existing wellheads
Bans on oil & gas pipelines
More environmental strangulation of refineries, plus uncertainty in supply means shut-downs and restarts to adjust to new fuel sources
Mind-numbing regulation of trucking
Local and state regulatory and tax asshattery
If this results in fuel and food shortages in the Northeast, then good: they need to get what they voted for good and hard.
American agriculture runs on diesel and shortages and high prices are bound to be felt at the grocery store in the form of even higher prices and empty shelves.
It trickles down to food really fast too.
That's actually part of the problem: the perverse incentives of US regulatory and tax policies make it more profitable to deliver less fuel.
Since you’re fine with giving me pain, I’m fine with giving it back to you and your family instead.
I agree.
I fear depression.
Democrats are the party of punishment. They will punish you until you comply with their wishes. Whether it’s buying health insurance, wearing a mask, closing down your kids’ playground, investigating parents who complain about pornography at school, having you fired for not injecting an experimental drug into yourself, raising fuel prices until you buy an electric car, etc. you will comply.
He’s also weakening us and raising energy prices, which directly helps Putin and the Russians.
We also eliminated HALF of our refining capacity on the US East Coast, from approx. 1.6 million barrels per day in 2000, to about 850K now.
So we rely instead on pipelines from the Gulf - but those refiners are also super-busy, and pipeline capacity is not expanding either.
We are witnessing a failed Presidency and all it’s consequences.
That’s my tax dollars you’re volunteering.
At least drunken sailors spend their OWN money!
We have no business meddling in that disasterand if we’re not careful we’ll end up fighting a war that should not be our problem.
When our sons die on that battlefield it will be moral global busybodies who threw gasoline on this small fire who will be to blame.
That’s my tax dollars you’re volunteering.
At least drunken sailors spend their OWN money!
We have no business meddling in that disasterand if we’re not careful we’ll end up fighting a war that should not be our problem.
When our sons die on that battlefield it will be moral global busybodies who threw gasoline on this small fire who will be to blame.
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