US Diesel Shortage: Why Rationing Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

With the issue on, with all these things that Dr. Martinson is talking about, with you're talking about here, what what tools, uh, uh, bypass routes, whatever does the global market have to try to, you know, kind of a shell game, let's move this around here, let's let's uh, maybe a little less there, a little more here, and let's redistribute it, all this kind of stuff. Are there other storage tanks? What can we do to mitigate the problem? What is the the industry doing to mitigate the problem? Well, as you say, the, you know, the strategic petroleum reserve is being drained rapidly. Uh, Chris Martinson did a report recently talking about how essentially the buffer that we have runs out, I think he said October. And he he's actually being quite generous. It it may not last that long. And what's clear is that in the United States, gasoline will probably not be in short supply because gasoline tends to be a derivative of the kind of oil that we produce domestically. But diesel and jet fuel are the problems, as I mentioned earlier, and of course the impacts of that are are wide-ranging. There's there's ...