Liam Denning, Columnist

Diesel Squeeze Is Next Energy Hurdle for White House

With winter finally gusting into the Northeast, US stocks of the fuel are low.

November 10, 2022 at 7:16 AM EST

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

A tanker truck parks at a diesel fuel pump in Illinois. — A tanker truck parks at a diesel fuel pump in Illinois.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

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Hello and welcome to Elements, our daily energy and commodities newsletter. Today, Bloomberg Opinion’s Liam Denning looks at how diesel may pose the next energy challenge for US President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats. For an examination of Qatar’s pledge to host a carbon-neutral World Cup, click here. To learn about real-time methane emissions, read this. If you haven’t yet signed up to get Elements directly into your inbox, you can do that here.

Having seemingly dodged a bullet over gasoline prices in the midterms, Democrats’ next energy hurdle concerns diesel.

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