Diesel prices in the United States have smashed records, topping $6 per gallon nationally and exceeding $7 on the West Coast, while inventories sit well below five-year averages. Truckers, farmers, freight operators, and industrial users feel it first. The pain is global: European and Asian markets have also hit or approached records as middle-distillate supplies […]
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The White House’s decision this week to step back from a blunt 90-day diesel export ban is one of the most important energy-security signals of 2026. Record pump prices invited a political shortcut. The administration, led by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, instead chose the harder and more honest path: keep the refining system running and […]
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Charlie Garcia stops by the Energy News Beat Channel, and he is a RockStar! Welcome back to Energy News Beat Podcast. Today we’re diving deep into a perfect storm that’s reshaping global markets, and most people have no idea it’s coming. We’re talking about the diesel crisis that’s quietly becoming the inflationary tax on everything—from […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on America OutLoud, and we highly recommend reading their publication. Ronald Stein, a great friend of the Energy News Beat Podcast, and Lance Christensen wrote this article on California and the pending crisis. Despite what out-of-state friends and family have said for years, California won’t fall into the […]
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The question in Washington is whether President Trump will treat that extra Russian oil as a problem to sanction—or as barrels he can use to keep gasoline and diesel from becoming a midterm disaster. That is the market story of September 15, 2026. It is also a political story. Prices jumped because Saudi’s safety valve […]
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Data Centers Done Right are a good thing – Done Wrong and we get problems. This is not a fringe NIMBY story. Polling flipped with unusual speed. A March 2026 Gallup survey found 71 percent of Americans opposed a data center in their area, including 48 percent who were strongly opposed — higher than opposition […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on America Outloud by Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza. Both are great energy leaders and have been on the Energy News Beat Podcast. We highly recommend checking out America Outloud and subscribing. Because California’s transportation fuel market is isolated from the rest of the country, with no major transportation […]
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Energy News Beat — The question is no longer whether Winter Storm Uri was a one-off. The question is whether the United States is still pricing electricity as if kilowatt-hours were interchangeable, when what grids actually sell is energy that shows up when people need it. A widely circulated Electroverse post this weekend put the Texas […]
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Meet Eric Conroy, running for Congress in Ohio. In this episode of the Energy News Beat podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Eric Conroy, an ex-CIA case officer and U.S. Air Force veteran running for Congress in Ohio’s District 1. With over 14 years of combined service in military intelligence and covert operations across […]
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That is not a talking point. It is the arithmetic of an integrated energy market that Ottawa cannot wish away, and Washington already understands. Smith’s warning, circulating widely after her CBC Power & Politics appearance and a clip posted by Stephen Taylor, is blunt: Alberta businesses will be hurt more by Canada’s own counter-tariffs than […]
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