Fuel company issues diesel shortage alert in Southeast U.S., including NC and SC

[libertybele]

Fuel company issues diesel shortage alert in Southeast U.S., including NC and SC

A major company that tracks the availability of fuel on Friday issued an alert for a diesel fuel shortage in the Southeastern United States, including North and South Carolina.

The alert from Mansfield Energy on Friday also includes Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Maryland. The fuel supply and logistics company noted “extremely high prices in the Northeast along with supply outages along the Southeast.”

The alert also said conditions are “rapidly devolving” with economics changing “significantly” daily.

“At times, carriers are having to visit multiple terminals to find supply, which delays deliveries and strains local trucking capacity,” the alert from Mansfield Energy said................

..............The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported this week the third lowest stocks on hand in the last five years of diesel fuel for the lower Atlantic area, which includes Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported the retail diesel price for the third quarter average was $5.16 per gallon. EIA estimates diesel at $4.86 per gallon in the fourth quarter of this year.

The prices for on-highway diesel for this week were at $5.18 per gallon in the lower Atlantic region, according to the EIA. That is an increase of nearly 40 cents per gallon since Sept. 19.

Mansfield issued the Code Red for the Southeast asking for a 72-hour notice for deliveries so that the fuel can be “secured.”...

https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/fuel-company-issues-diesel-shortage-alert-in-southeast-u-s-including-nc-and-sc/

[Hoodat]

In the past, the President or the Secretary of Energy would reach out to refineries and request that they increase their yields of diesel.  No chance of that happening now, though.

[roamer_1]

OF COURSE they will hammer the South. Because they can.

The West is another thing.

[EdinVA]

Moving product to the places they can get the highest prices..

[libertybele]

I think this issue is much much more critical than Nancy's drunken husband hammered by a whacko gay gypsy guy

New England Utility Urges Biden to Declare Emergency to Avoid Fuel Shortage

New England’s largest utility is imploring President Joe Biden to start preparing emergency measures to prevent a potential wintertime natural gas shortage.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has “acknowledged for many months that New England will not have sufficient natural gas to meet power supply needs for the region in the event of a severe cold spell this winter,” Joseph Nolan, chief executive officer of Springfield, Massachusetts-based Eversource Energy, wrote in a letter to Biden. “This represents a serious public health and safety threat.”

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment...........

...............In its letter Thursday, Eversource asked the White House to consider emergency authorities including use of the Defense Production Act as well as provide a waiver of the Jones Act, a century-old law that can raise shipping costs................

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-28/utility-urges-biden-to-declare-emergency-to-avoid-fuel-shortage

[sneakypete]

In the past, the President or the Secretary of Energy would reach out to refineries and request that they increase their yields of diesel.  No chance of that happening now, though.

@Hoodat

In the past,this would have never happened.

This is nothing less than the purposeful destruction of the US Economy by American communists and their fascist pals.

[libertybele]

@Hoodat

In the past,this would have never happened.

This is nothing less than the purposeful destruction of the US Economy by American communists and their fascist pals.

Yes, that is true.  However, what is the remedy??

[sneakypete]

Yes, that is true.  However, what is the remedy??

@libertybele

Gallows and nooses.