As diesel fuel supplies drop to historic lows and threaten to upend the trucking and farming industry in the U.S., the evening news shows continue to do what they do best: Ignore the news and repeat liberal talking points.
“East Coast fuel markets are facing diesel supply constraints due to market economics and tight inventories,” a Mansfield Energy emergency report explained. Mansfield released a “supply alert” on Oct. 25, raising alarm that a diesel fuel shortage wasn’t just coming — it had already arrived. [Emphasis, links added]
But the Big Three evening news shows – ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News – failed to cover the diesel fuel crisis for 10 days and counting.
Mansfield announced in the same report that it was moving the southeast U.S. to “Code Red” – “requesting 72-hour notice for deliveries when possible to ensure fuel and freight can be secured at economical levels” – as a result of the diesel fuel crisis.
Diesel fuel is critical for most freight and delivery trucks as well as trains, buses, boats, farms, construction, military vehicles, and even some cars and light trucks, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
But in more bad news for the economy, MarketWatch reported on Nov. 7 that “U.S. diesel supplies have dropped to their lowest on record for this time of year.” [Emphasis added].
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) tweeted: “This diesel shortage is threatening to crush America’s truckers and farmers—the backbone of our economy. The entire supply chain will feel the impact.”
But instead of covering the diesel fuel shortage, the evening news shows gushed over celebrity news.
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The world needs more refineries. Who is brave enough to build a refinery today, in this over – regulated environment ? NIMBY-ISM is the problem and it has metastasized globally. The EPA has pushed old refineries into recycling cooking oil or out of production completely. I predict that North America will depend more and more on the third world for diesel and gasoline. Washington has destroyed investor confidence in North American energy production. The electorate seems oblivious.