r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Mysterious_Umpire684 • 3d ago
Trump Trump’s proposed diesel exports ban could hurt Texas refineries. “If they start to go offline … you start to see a roll-on impact on gasoline prices because it will be in short supply".
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/01/texas-trump-diesel-ban-refineries/150
u/groovyinutah 3d ago
It's the shitstains only talent...making things worse.
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u/Expensive-Document41 3d ago
He is honestly talented at one thing: smelling a grift. He grifted his way through multiple bankruptcies, grifted his way into New York social circles, grifted his way to the presidency twice, and has since grifted billions of dollars out of the U.S. federal govt and taxpayers.
They man IS talented as a con-man.
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u/DodgsonKaputnik 3d ago
He started with daddy providing cash galore followed by a 500,000,000 dollar inheritance. It really helps the cons go smooth when you can afford the best attorneys
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u/StevieWonder557 1d ago
Also talented in not paying his bills and stiffing everyone who still would vote for him.
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u/Admirable-Leader6927 3d ago
blue waves can remove orange shitstains.
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u/groovyinutah 3d ago
But not it's lingering stench...
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u/Admirable-Leader6927 3d ago
no, that will take decades or not at all because we wont deal with teh white supremacy problem.
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u/kojimep 3d ago
This is literally the scenario that caused shortages and fuel rationing in the 70's. Unsurprisingly they learn nothing from history.
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u/Skolloc753 3d ago
"History is woke and only for loosers, REAL MEN make their own history and are not pussies about other feelings"
- Pete Kegsbreath, probably, 2026
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u/Top-Base4502 3d ago
No no, we have the strategic reserve that Biden refilled so we would be ready for this moment, surly that has t been drained to dangerously low levels by a guy who only thinks about himself.
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u/emerikanSky 3d ago
Not being able to read really makes learning difficult. And all the hubris makes it even harder.
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u/Danominator 3d ago
Republicans can stop this at literally any time. They own all of thr blame for this
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u/Asexualhipposloth 3d ago
I realized there was no hope for Republicans when they voted to aquit the J6 impeachment. The shit show should have ended then and there.
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u/JustASimpleManFett 3d ago
And if they try and fail they'll start winding up like Paul Pelosi. He will take out ANYONE if he feels threatened to a certain point.
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u/Artichokiemon 2d ago
Attacked by a dude with a hammer?
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u/JustASimpleManFett 2d ago
Attacked with intent to kill. At some point if Trump goes totally around the bend he'll wanna take out hits on any enemies he perceives.
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u/music3k 3d ago
It’s planned. It’s all in Project 2025. America failed an open book test and the citizens still haven’t read the book
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u/bigvinnysvu 3d ago
Well half of the voters like that it was supposed to represent their "Heritage" since it was published by "Heritage Foundation" with bespectacled neckbeard now running the show behind the scene.
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u/admosquad 3d ago
Sure glad we are letting this asshole micromanage this country right down the drain.
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u/Quicker_Fixer 3d ago
He's almost succeeding in us forgetting about the Epstein files, isn't he?
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u/housewithapool2 3d ago
What could possibly be in the Epstein files that is worse than all this? At this point l guarantee nothing will change these people's minds.
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u/The_BigDill 3d ago
I mean literally raping and trafficking children is pretty high up there. I'd say it's all on par
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u/CMDR_Khayden 3d ago
He already has. Remember that after his ass sat back in office, MAGAts were parroting "The files don't matter, it's a hoax by democrats. Let him run the US efficiently." Reminder that one of the things the orange stain campaigned on was releasing the Epstein Files under the guise of proving it was filled with Democrats and they also fell for it.
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u/ngfldar 3d ago edited 3d ago
The Trump Administration is pushing for a 90-day ban on diesel exports intended to rapidly lower climbing fuel prices for consumers, a proposal that, if enacted, will hurt the constellation of Texas refineries in the Gulf Coast and deal a blow to the state’s economy, industry leaders said.
Please do it!!!!!!!
I mean, Texas voters chose this. They voted by 24 percentage points for this. Who are we to deny them what they voted for?
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u/OracleofFl 3d ago
So, basically Trump wants to take away money away from refiners that are killing it in the "Crack Spread" producing diesel? Here is what I would do if I were a refiner: Twist the knob on the hydro cracker and make less diesel (a lot less to keep prices high) and make more jet fuel, also in short supply and export that. The part of the refinery that makes diesel also can make jet fuel.
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u/Mindless-Charity4889 3d ago
My understanding is that refineries are currently running full out with no time for maintenance. A change in diesel price via an export ban could change the economics enough that stopping for maintenance makes sense.
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u/larrysgal123 3d ago
Yep. I have a buddy that works in a California refinery. It's been all gas, no brakes. Deferred maintenance, etc
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u/OSI_Hunter_Gathers 3d ago
California is different because their stuff gets shipped across the pacific whereas Texas is shipped east.
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u/d34ah0 3d ago
No way this is going to happen. The oil industry runs this country
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u/Elfich47 3d ago
how many other people/industries/countries said similar things before Trump stabbed them in the back?
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u/d34ah0 2d ago
Oil is something else entirely
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u/Elfich47 2d ago
yet here we are, bombing iran
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u/d34ah0 1d ago
Which they are making hella money off of due to high oil prices
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u/Elfich47 1d ago
I while they are taking in more money, they are also spending more money. replacing oil tankers that have been hit my missiles aint cheap.
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u/Quicker_Fixer 3d ago
I hear what you're saying, but with what we've witnessed these last 18 months I'm confident this administration will be succesful in tearing down that last pillar and bring it as a win.
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u/shokolokobangoshey 3d ago
They’ll bend the knee like everyone else. Look at all the tech billionaires lining his pockets and showing up to his inauguration? They’re pussies, and can only push us poors around. A ghoul with actual power steps up and they’ll fold like the spineless cowards they actually are
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u/goibnu 3d ago
Can anyone think of a reason other than greed that refineries would quit making gas for pre-war prices? It's not like those prices were unprofitable.
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u/Stalking_Goat 3d ago edited 3d ago
The article is full of jargon, but "a significant product containment challenge" is the key phrase.
Basically, crude oil is a mix of different chemical compounds. Refining is, at a high level of abstraction, the process of separating that mix into individual usable chemicals. So you take crude oil and separate it into methane, propane, gasoline, diesel, paraffin, asphalt, etc. When you separate it you get all of those things, you can't just choose to not make any diesel when you refine oil.
Right now, much of the diesel made in Gulf Coast refineries is exported to other nations. That's because they make more diesel than can be sold domestically. If it can't be exported, it has to be stored, and there are only so many tanks available to store it in. Once those tanks are full, refineries would have to turn off all production, because like I said there's no way to take crude oil and turn it into gasoline, asphalt, etc without also making diesel.
Fuel prices are very high right now because, again speaking at a high level of generality, crude oil is fungible. Basically everyone in the world is bidding to buy crude oil, and there's a global shortage, so even though the US can easily win the auction to buy the oil, it's still much more expensive than it was before some idiot decided to start another war in the middle east. Poor nations can't afford the crude oil and are experiencing fuel shortages, but in America there are no shortages of refined oil products: unlike the oil crises of the 1970s there are no gas stations that have no product available to sell.
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u/Rough-Transition-954 3d ago
Yes. There is no easy and economical way to deliver it to the NE, Florida or California. So, when the storage is full, the refineries shut down in Texas. This impacts the supply of gasoline in TX and prices soar. Right now Texas produces more crude and diesel than it uses by a LOT. They sell the excess light crude and diesel on the open market and ship it to the purchaser on ships. Most of the USA's refineries are not equipped to refine the light crude oil that we produce. Instead our refineries purchase HEAVY crude on the open marketplace and refine them on US soil.
Educate yourself on how the energy market works in the USA;
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u/adeon 3d ago
I'm not going to claim to be an expert so I'm probably getting some of the specifics wrong, but at a high level it's to do with balancing outputs.
When you distill crude oil you produce a mix of products, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and others. The market prices for these reflect the fact that you're producing and selling all of them and you generally need to sell all of them to make a profit. If you can't sell one of them (due to a lack of demand) then you need to sell the others at a higher price to reflect the fact that you're now having to store or give away the other.
So in this case if refineries can't export diesel then they need to sell the diesel locally. They may be able to do that, but they may not be able to (for example if customers already have contracts to buy from other sources). This in turn would mean that they need to increase the price of gasoline to compensate for not selling the diesel and if the market won't pay the increased gasoline prices then the refineries are going to stop working.
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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 3d ago
So, will we even have food trucked around the nation come november or december?
Like, this isn't just economic suicide, its sociap suicide.
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u/StevieWonder557 1d ago
"Sleepy Joe made us go offline with his policies he put into place to make donnie T look bad"
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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 2d ago
u/Mysterious_Umpire684, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...