Yesterday 03:14 PM
(This post was last modified: Yesterday 04:08 PM by C C.)
Too late to save the midterms, anyway. The time to have done that was getting out of the war after the originally promised 5 or 6 weeks. Or just showing signs of any consciousness at all of November back during January to March.
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'He doesn't understand': Major Texas paper tears apart Trump's plan for diesel crisis
https://www.rawstory.com/houston-diesel-...ort-paper/
INTRO: The editorial board for the Houston Chronicle raked President Donald Trump over the coals Thursday morning for his plan to ban diesel exports from the United States for three months — a plan that even some of his own advisers have warned will only make the fuel crisis even worse.
Trump's solution, wrote the board, only proves he doesn't understand how energy markets work.
"There isn’t one big, frictionless domestic oil and gas market for Trump to micromanage," wrote the board. In Houston, they continued, there is surplus production of diesel, "but infrastructure bottlenecks and regulatory barriers like the Jones Act make it difficult to easily transport it to, say, Boston and the rest of the East Coast, so we export the rest to buyers across the planet. Hang out in Galveston and you can watch those diesel-filled tankers sail across the horizon."
At the same time, the board wrote, East Coast states are reliant on importing diesel because they can't make enough to meet demand. "Banning U.S. exports would make those global prices skyrocket — sending the price at the pump along the Atlantic coast skyrocketing, too."
[...] The actual solution to the crisis, the board continued, is to end the Iran war that Trump started, which is destabilizing global energy markets in the first place.
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EU says US diesel export plan is 'bad idea' that risks hurting both sides
https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/24/eu-s...both-sides
INTRO: Brussels has pushed back against a US proposal to curb diesel exports, even as the White House insists it's aiming for targeted restrictions rather than an outright ban. The European Union has hit out at a possible US diesel export ban being considered by President Donald Trump, calling it a "bad idea" that could damage both economies.
Trump signalled support for a ban this week as surging fuel prices — driven by the war in the Middle East — threaten to cost his Republican party control of Congress in November's midterm elections. But European Commission spokesman Olof Gill said Brussels viewed the plans "with concern".
"We believe this is a bad idea," Gill told a press conference. "We believe it potentially can have a negative impact on both sides. We're making that point to our US counterparts at the highest level."
Europe has also grappled with high fuel prices since the US-Iran war began in late February, but it is far more reliant on imports than the US. The average diesel price across the EU's 27 member states hit a record €2.23 per litre, according to an AFP analysis of commission data published on Thursday. The US supplied around 50% of the bloc's diesel imports in August.
"We expect close partners to consult each other before taking measures that affect shared markets," Gill added.
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'He doesn't understand': Major Texas paper tears apart Trump's plan for diesel crisis
https://www.rawstory.com/houston-diesel-...ort-paper/
INTRO: The editorial board for the Houston Chronicle raked President Donald Trump over the coals Thursday morning for his plan to ban diesel exports from the United States for three months — a plan that even some of his own advisers have warned will only make the fuel crisis even worse.
Trump's solution, wrote the board, only proves he doesn't understand how energy markets work.
"There isn’t one big, frictionless domestic oil and gas market for Trump to micromanage," wrote the board. In Houston, they continued, there is surplus production of diesel, "but infrastructure bottlenecks and regulatory barriers like the Jones Act make it difficult to easily transport it to, say, Boston and the rest of the East Coast, so we export the rest to buyers across the planet. Hang out in Galveston and you can watch those diesel-filled tankers sail across the horizon."
At the same time, the board wrote, East Coast states are reliant on importing diesel because they can't make enough to meet demand. "Banning U.S. exports would make those global prices skyrocket — sending the price at the pump along the Atlantic coast skyrocketing, too."
[...] The actual solution to the crisis, the board continued, is to end the Iran war that Trump started, which is destabilizing global energy markets in the first place.
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EU says US diesel export plan is 'bad idea' that risks hurting both sides
https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/24/eu-s...both-sides
INTRO: Brussels has pushed back against a US proposal to curb diesel exports, even as the White House insists it's aiming for targeted restrictions rather than an outright ban. The European Union has hit out at a possible US diesel export ban being considered by President Donald Trump, calling it a "bad idea" that could damage both economies.
Trump signalled support for a ban this week as surging fuel prices — driven by the war in the Middle East — threaten to cost his Republican party control of Congress in November's midterm elections. But European Commission spokesman Olof Gill said Brussels viewed the plans "with concern".
"We believe this is a bad idea," Gill told a press conference. "We believe it potentially can have a negative impact on both sides. We're making that point to our US counterparts at the highest level."
Europe has also grappled with high fuel prices since the US-Iran war began in late February, but it is far more reliant on imports than the US. The average diesel price across the EU's 27 member states hit a record €2.23 per litre, according to an AFP analysis of commission data published on Thursday. The US supplied around 50% of the bloc's diesel imports in August.
"We expect close partners to consult each other before taking measures that affect shared markets," Gill added.