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Diesel’s record run exposes the world’s refining bottleneck

President Trump says the White House is considering a ban on US diesel exports “very seriously”. This is a huge threat, but behind the threat sits a problem no export ban can solve: the world can’t refine enough fuel. A barrel of crude does nothing for a truck or a cargo ship until a refinery has processed it.

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