{"id":63882,"date":"2022-10-20T07:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63882"},"modified":"2022-10-20T07:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T12:05:20","slug":"forget-oil-the-real-crisis-is-diesel-inventories-the-us-has-just-25-days-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63882","title":{"rendered":"Forget Oil, The Real Crisis Is Diesel Inventories: The US Has Just 25 Days Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__Eyn7V\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__MEgbb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/forget-oil-real-crisis-diesel-inventories-us-has-just-25-days-left\">Forget Oil, The Real Crisis Is Diesel Inventories: The US Has Just 25 Days Left<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI\">\n<p>For all the drama surrounding Biden&#8217;s latest Strategic Petroleum Reserve fiasco and his admin&#8217;s ridiculous idea to &#8220;stimulate&#8221; US energy producers to pump more oil because, you see, Biden promises to buy oil at some unknown point in the future (he may or may not, but\u00a0<strong>right now\u00a0<\/strong>he is certainly draining a million barrels of\u00a0<strong>emergency\u00a0<\/strong>US energy lifeblood just to buy a few midterm votes, assuring energy producers have\u00a0<strong>zero incentive\u00a0<\/strong>to produce more), the real crisis is not oil or gas,\u00a0<strong>but diesel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem is that as we repeatedly warned over the summer, even as others were transfixed by the moves in gas, see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/sorry-diesel-prices-are-likely-climb-again-soon\">Sorry, Diesel Prices Are Likely To Climb Again Soon<\/a>\u00a0(Aug 4)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/can-global-gasoline-and-diesel-crisis-be-solved\">Can The Global Gasoline And Diesel Crisis Be Solved?<\/a>\u00a0(June 21)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/d-day-approaches-crack-spread-soars-diesel-market-braces-historic-shock\">D-Day Approaches: Crack Spread Soars As Diesel Market Braces For Historic Shock<\/a>\u00a0(May 3)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/diesel-market-soaring-and-gasoline-prices-will-catch-summer\">The Diesel Market Is Soaring, And Gasoline Prices Will Catch Up This Summer<\/a>\u00a0(May 1)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/global-diesel-shortage-push-oil-prices-much-higher\">Global Diesel Shortage To Push Oil Prices Much Higher\u00a0<\/a>(March 25)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/gas-stations-will-run-dry-catastrophic-scenario-diesel-emerging-according-worlds-largest\">Gas Stations Will Run Dry&#8221;: Catastrophic Scenario For Diesel Emerging\u00a0<\/a>(<a>March 23<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/global-diesel-shortage-raises-risk-even-greater-oil-price-spike\">Global Diesel Shortage Raises Risk Of Even Greater Oil Price Spike\u00a0<\/a>(Mar 12)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/china-asks-state-owned-refiners-halt-gasoline-diesel-exports\">China Asks State-Owned Refiners To Halt Gasoline, Diesel Exports\u00a0<\/a>(Mar 10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/us-diesel-stocks-set-fall-critically-low\">U.S. Diesel Stocks Set To Fall Critically Low<\/a>\u00a0(Feb 18)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/diesel-us-economys-inflation-canary\">Diesel Is The U.S. Economy&#8217;s Inflation Canary<\/a>\u00a0(Feb 8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; the crisis gripping the US diesel market is getting out of hand, as demand is surging while\u00a0<strong>supplies remain at the lowest seasonal level for this time of year ever<\/strong>, according to government data released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/distillate%20inventories%20record%20low.jpg?itok=xs0FpZCB\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/distillate%20inventories%20record%20low.jpg?itok=xs0FpZCB\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/distillate%20inventories%20record%20low.jpg?itok=xs0FpZCB\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2477d998-45f7-4799-823b-a9f5b81bb52d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the EIA, the US now has\u00a0<strong>just 25 days of diesel supply, the lowest since 2008;\u00a0<\/strong>and while inventories are record low, the four-week rolling average of\u00a0distillates supplied &#8211; a proxy for demand &#8211;<strong>\u00a0rose to its highest seasonal level since 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/US%20diesel%20supply.jpg?itok=_KGdZOAE\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/US%20diesel%20supply.jpg?itok=_KGdZOAE\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/US%20diesel%20supply.jpg?itok=_KGdZOAE\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"eb911443-0bbb-4ef3-b548-6096f72d149e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Oil, The Real Crisis Is Diesel Inventories: The US Has Just 25 Days Left For all the drama surrounding Biden&#8217;s latest Strategic Petroleum Reserve fiasco and his admin&#8217;s ridiculous idea to &#8220;stimulate&#8221; US energy producers to pump more oil because, you see, Biden promises to buy oil at some unknown point in the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14047,33285,827,834,4318],"class_list":["post-63882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-diesel","tag-diesel-inventories","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63883,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63882\/revisions\/63883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}