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19.09.26 - 07:54
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Bundesregierung plant Tankrabatt und Preisdeckel (Die Welt)
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Die Bundesregierung senkt die Energiesteuer für Sprit um 17 Cent pro Liter und plant ab Januar einen Spritpreisdeckel. Das Entlastungsvolumen liegt bei 2,5 Milliarden Euro. Ökonomen und Verbraucherschützer kritisieren die Maßnahmen als „Gießkannenpolitik“....
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18.09.26 - 13:24
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The Great Diesel Crisis - How Policy Choices Made The West Vulnerable (ZeroHedge)
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The Great Diesel Crisis - How Policy Choices Made The West Vulnerable
Authored by Daniel Lacalle,
How taxes, regulation, refinery closures, sanctions and declining domestic production turned a geopolitical shock into a diesel-price crisis
Do not blame diesel prices on the Iran war or the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz. The geopolitical risk premium attached to oil prices is relevant, but the market was already weakened by policy choices.
Europe has taxed motor fuels heavily, imposed escalating regulatory and carbon costs across the supply chain, closed refining capacity, sanctioned major sources of refined-product supply, and discouraged investment in domestic oil and gas production. Today's refined product system is smaller, less flexible and more import-dependent, and, as such, every geopolitical disruption produces a larger price shock.
Diesel prices rise faster than crude because diesel suffers its own supply constraints, and these are politically imposed, not due to a war.
In the Uni...
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18.09.26 - 13:24
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Midwest Braces For Diesel Crisis After Exxon′s Joliet Refinery Suffers Disruption (ZeroHedge)
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Midwest Braces For Diesel Crisis After Exxon's Joliet Refinery Suffers Disruption
A major refinery in the US Midwest went offline this week after a power outage, adding to global refining disruptions as US diesel prices reach record highs.
One of the largest diesel refineries in the Midwest is offline pic.twitter.com/JSwuHrNfBw
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 18, 2026
Exxon Mobil shut its 275,000-barrel-a-day Joliet refinery in Illinois on Sunday after a power failure triggered the facility's safety flare, Reuters reported. A Thursday filing also disclosed that floodwater had overwhelmed a pump at the plant.
Exxon traced the power outage to ComEd's primary and secondary lines supplying the refinery and said it had fully restored electricity by Thursday. Power restoration, however, does not mean fuel production has resumed.
Located about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, Joliet can produce about 11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel daily, primarily for Midwest consumers. Its processin...
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