Refineries eye record profits from diesel shortage

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRefineries are looking at record profits this morning, because the diesel shortage has turned the fuel they make into gold.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Guardian reports the world's energy watchdog now says the global fuel shortage will drag into twenty twenty-seven, days after Donald Trump announced a deal to import Russian diesel into the US to bring down pump prices.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the refiners get richer, and the rest of us get a longer drive to the same sad pump.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty twenty-seven. I'll be cheerful about it, since someone has to be.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYou're never cheerful.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe is today. Diesel moves your groceries, so expect it on the receipt, and the refineries will frame that receipt.