Trump signed an order Monday letting anyone buy tax-exempt red-dye diesel and said it would save truckers more than $100 per fill-up. How much fleets actually save depends on four federal departments expanding access and on states choosing to suspend their own diesel taxes.
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President Trump plans to let tax-exempt red diesel into on-road vehicles, a 24-cent-a-gallon federal excise cut for drivers. With diesel stocks at a record seasonal low, sellers are better placed than drivers to keep that money.
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Prediction-market odds of a US diesel export ban by October 31 fell to 9.5% from 20% in a day, with diesel at nearly $6.50 a gallon, close to a record. Republicans want relief a month before the midterms, yet traders now price a ban before the contract settles as a long shot.
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Iran-war diesel surge will hit grocery prices within weeks, Axios's Nathan Bomey says
Axios reporter Nathan Bomey says the Iran war's diesel surge, felt first by truckers and farmers, will show up in grocery prices within weeks, if not days. Operators paying for freight or farm inputs face a cost increase that lands inside the current quarter's budget.
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Diesel's 74% climb implies roughly 15% higher operating costs for truckers
US diesel's record $6.59 a gallon, up 74% in a year per the EIA, implies trucking operating costs about 15% higher on an industry rule of thumb. Truckers run on margins too thin to absorb that, so the increase moves into the price of whatever they haul.
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Crude had a reserve to tap and refined product does not, which is why taking roughly 3% of global diesel supply out of the market has pushed the US pump average to an all-time high with the squeeze still building.
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Record diesel crack spreads on top of expensive crude have taken the US pump price to an all-time high. Senator Chuck Grassley wants President Trump to ban the exports, which are also at a record.
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Record diesel adds $13,740 to one Missouri combine's 30-day harvest
AAA had the U.S. diesel average at $6.05 a gallon on Friday, up about 60% from the $3.76 of late February, and a Missouri farmer burning 200 gallons a day for 30 days now faces roughly $36,300 in fuel for the combine alone.
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Diesel at a record $5.90 is where Hormuz risk actually lands on a P&L
Brown University's tracker has the Iran war billing US consumers $1m every two minutes, which is about $720m a day, and the line rising fastest inside that total is the diesel one that freight buyers pay.
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Hauling the data center buildout means fronting record diesel before the invoice clears
Cox Fleet says flatbed and heavy haul spot rates sit at multiyear highs on data center loads, while altLINE's factoring desk says the same work makes small carriers pay for fuel, labor and maintenance before the shipper pays them.
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- Confidence55