Germany Approves Fuel Tax Cut

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🎓 Christian E. Weller	36%	18	45.8%

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Christian Weller

@profcew.bsky.social

Good explanatory thread how diesel supply chains for New England work. A lot of people use it to heat their homes, their costs will go up a lot this winter, export controls could make this worse. It will hit lower-income households especially hard.

Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · 2h

1/n: Because of record-breaking diesel prices, the Trump Admin is reportedly considering a diesel export ban. There is one part of the country that this would squeeze tremendously, risking physical shortages that would prevent people from heating their homes in winter: New England (PADD 1A).

September 22, 2026 at 8:21 PM

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Ryan Cummings

@weakinstrument.bsky.social

1/n: Because of record-breaking diesel prices, the Trump Admin is reportedly considering a diesel export ban. There is one part of the country that this would squeeze tremendously, risking physical shortages that would prevent people from heating their homes in winter: New England (PADD 1A).

September 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM

El Pais

Diesel price in the United States hits a new high of $6.52 amid refined fuel shortages

Americans increased their spending on fuel by about $116.1 billion due to the war against Iran, according to a study

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Jesse Alston

@jessealston.bsky.social

It would lower diesel prices in the US at least temporarily but almost certainly cause retaliatory export bans of other stuff into the US

September 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM

by Menzie Chinn

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Menzie Chinn

@mchinn.bsky.social

Gasoline, diesel prices up 3.7% and 3.9%, week/week
econbrowser.com/archives/202...

September 22, 2026 at 4:19 PM

by James Goodwin

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James Goodwin

@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social

The claim seems to be that "February 2026 Trump" had caused $18-per-gallon diesel and fortunately, thanks to "Present Day Trump," we have only $10-per-gallon diesel.

Even if we accepted the claim about Present Day Trump as true, you can see why that's completely unsatisfying, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Marco Rubio claims that if it wasn't for Trump, diesel prices would be $18 a gallon 🙃

September 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Handelsblatt

Fuel Prices: Cabinet Approves 14-Cent Per Liter Tax Cut on Gasoline and Diesel

The federal cabinet on Monday approved a 14-cent-per-litre cut in the energy tax on petrol and diesel. The relief will run from October 1 to December 31

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio claims that if it wasn't for Trump, diesel prices would be $18 a gallon 🙃

September 22, 2026 at 12:08 PM

by Timothy D. McBride

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

Diesel prices shoot upward as top farm-state GOP senator begs Trump for export embargo missouriindependent.com/2026/09/21/r...

Diesel prices shoot upward as top farm-state GOP senator begs Trump for export embargo • Missouri Independent

WASHINGTON — Diesel prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, and some in President Donald Trump’s own party are breaking their support for the ongoing war in Iran that has driven fuel pri...

missouriindependent.com

September 22, 2026 at 11:12 AM

by Johannes Quaas

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Johannes Quaas

@jquaas.bsky.social

Spectacular keynote by @moritzdrupp.bsky.social at the CBC conference @cbc-conference.bsky.social biodiversity and it's increasing relative value imply carbon should be taxed more than twice as much (and certainly not subsidized as the German government intends to do!)

Moritz Drupp in the lecture hall in Leipzig

September 22, 2026 at 8:32 AM

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Handelsblatt

Lars Feld: Fuel discount and price cap are nothing but populist measures

The fuel discount is back—and with it the Germans' great illusion. But the state cannot regulate rising prices away without creating new problems. A guest column