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Diesel Shortage Leaves US With Just 25-Day Supply as Demand Surges: Report
https://www.thedrive.com ^ | 10/24/2022 | NICO DEMATTIA

Posted on 10/24/2022 1:47:30 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

iesel stockpiles in the U.S. are reportedly at their lowest point since 2008, with only enough fuel for a 25-day supply, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. Demand is also said to be at its highest point since 2007, creating a dangerous supply/demand combination that's causing spikes in pricing. The Biden administration called the nationwide diesel supply "unacceptably low" and is looking at all options to build up the national supply to help reduce prices.

According to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the average price of diesel is at $5.34 per gallon. That's an increase of $1.67 per gallon, compared to this time last year. The area getting hit the hardest is New England, where people burn diesel fuel for heat more than anywhere else in the country. There, stockpiles of diesel fuel are a third of what they normally are at this time of the year. However, the highest cost of diesel fuel is in California, where the average cost is almost $6.50 per gallon, an increase of almost $2.00 per gallon over this time last year.

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To: RomanSoldier19
The USA exports 1.04 million B/D (barrels per day) of diesel.

eia.gov

21 posted on 10/24/2022 3:46:05 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: lizma2

Something is up with him - the destruction this country by Leftists

Annenberg Foundation, for example

Aren’t they a big Leftist PBS funder?


22 posted on 10/24/2022 3:48:21 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Biden Administration = DESTROY AMERICA!!
23 posted on 10/24/2022 3:49:33 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: RoosterRedux

Your response is so spot on!


24 posted on 10/24/2022 3:59:55 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: RomanSoldier19
"Let them drive electric."


25 posted on 10/24/2022 4:01:42 AM PDT by moovova
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To: RomanSoldier19

Mainly a refinery problem. We need more refineries, but the Environazis have prevented new ones from being built.


26 posted on 10/24/2022 4:04:03 AM PDT by kabar
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To: RoosterRedux

Joe is bribed by Mexican cartels and promoting the import of deadly fentanyl


27 posted on 10/24/2022 4:21:04 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Meanwhile...

Exxon selling Montana oil refinery to Par Pacific in $310 million deal

Check out the rationale...

..."ExxonMobil is focused on investing in facilities where we can manufacture higher-value products such as lubricants and u.....

Ruh roh.

28 posted on 10/24/2022 4:39:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Just because diesel fuel is used to transport food, fuel and
JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE is no reason to believe that
it is actually IMPORTANT - or anything.

If we starve and freeze to death this winter it is of little importance. (To 'Them')
And remember that you are PARANOID and a lunatic if you
think that this is all being PLANNED in order to collapse
the US economy, destroy our way of life, make us dependent
on the almighty 'Government Deity' and usher us all (who are left alive)
into a new 'Glorious' communist NWO America.

Only total LOONS think like that!
Right?

/CUS - (Completely unFunny Sarcasm)

By the way - Happy Monday!

29 posted on 10/24/2022 4:49:30 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: RomanSoldier19

Slow Joe should be arrested and tried for sabotaging the U.S.
As titular head of the government, he is responsible for depleting our energy sector, and supporting storage.
He is also responsible for lack of military response to the invasion by enemy combatants, across our southern border.
These are treasonous acts against the United States, and should be prosecuted immediately.


30 posted on 10/24/2022 4:56:25 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I’m still not selling Little Brown, my ‘06 F350. I’m just gonna have to drive him a little less.


31 posted on 10/24/2022 4:59:51 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Fireone
"These are treasonous acts against the United States,
and should be prosecuted immediately."

.

Agreed.

What are the chances of that happening?
(I do NOT wish to be 'negative' here.)

So how about instead we start a betting pool on the exact
date when Joe will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

.

DANG!!! There I go being sarcastically negative again.
Maybe a doctor can help me?
Nah - Probably not...

32 posted on 10/24/2022 5:10:30 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
Government is the problem -- worldwide.

Ultimately the people who go along with these schemes are the problem because they enable government to get them established. The climate scam is a good example. It's not enough that the willing dupes believe when they're told it's the hottest summer on record locally as they're living through lower temps than the summer before. They go the extra to pay for their carbon usage.

There's a guy on my team at work who went on a two week vacation and proudly posted in our team Slack channel how he offset his trip on a site called clear.eco where you can put in your flight details and choose your level of offset for them to soak you. The best part is they soak you more for flying first class over economy. (Apparently being sardined in your seats makes you use less carbon. It's scientific, you know.) Once you tell scammers that you not only go along with their scam, but want to pay extra for their scam, it's full speed ahead.

33 posted on 10/24/2022 5:14:59 AM PDT by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

this biden fella on top of it tho. not


34 posted on 10/24/2022 5:20:29 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: Dahoser
Question: Who's pocket does this 'carbon credit' scam money go into?
Do you know?
35 posted on 10/24/2022 5:34:35 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: BobL

All of the cheerleaders for Ukraine posting on this FR site need to suit up, grab a rifle and rush into the teeth of Russian artillery salvos. Throw YOUR life away for a corrupt country with no strategic value to Americans.


36 posted on 10/24/2022 5:46:20 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: RomanSoldier19
I've driven diesel cars since 2009. Only in the last year or so have I regretted it...even a little bit. Oh well,there's sure to be diesel found along Interstates and I'm only a few miles from one...so I guess the only thing I'll have to worry about is price.

However,it seems possible that homes (home heating oil),trucks and other large vehicles will be given priority if there's a serious shortage so I just might be doing a lot a walking this winter.

37 posted on 10/24/2022 5:54:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: Dahoser
--- "Once you tell scammers that you not only go along with their scam, but want to pay extra for their scam, it's full speed ahead."

I fully appreciate your view and response. I suspect that as more and more productive people see the effects on their wallets, they will rebel. One sees this so oddly in China as in Japan, wherein the young adults who see no real possibility for advancement "lie down." That is, stop trying except to do the bare minimum. One sees it additionally as "walk away" movements are occurring, and as various kinds of "awakening" happen. Odd perhaps, but I am an optimist that the sort of whom you write will in time figure things out. Best wishes.

38 posted on 10/24/2022 5:59:13 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Western PA yesterday - $6.02/gallon.


39 posted on 10/24/2022 6:04:37 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: sauropod

How many days of supply do we have normally?
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/a-25-day-diesel-supply-and-surging-demand-are-a-worry-for-biden
Good question and I was wondering the same thing. Go about halfway down this Bloomberg page and you will find a graph entitled “US Diesel Supply Crunch Worst since 2008”. The graph shows the trend line of the number of days of diesel supply from 2008 to the present time. If I can summarize the trend line over that period in a sentence or two (based on a quick visual review), the peak number of days is 55 and the average looks to be a bit over 35 days.

Perhaps the most concerning part of the trend line is just how fast the latest drop has occurred... it looks like it dropped from say 34 days to 25 days in a very short timeframe i.e. as in dropping off the table. This drop appears to be over a 2 month period and it is still dropping at the same rate (although the graph might just appear that way because of how the data for the graph was put together without enough data points to fill in the most recent timeframe).

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/How-The-Diesel-Crisis-Became-An-Inflationary-Time-Bomb.html Here is a better link with a lot more meaningful data that includes this statement... “In short, record low supply (courtesy of stifling regulations that have led to a historic shortage of refining capacity) meet record high demand. What comes next is, well, ugly (while weekly demand dipped slightly in the latest week, it’s still at highest point in two years amid higher trucking, farming and heating use).”


40 posted on 10/24/2022 6:06:49 AM PDT by hecticskeptic (The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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