Already, China, Thailand, South Korea, Pakistan and other countries have scaled back or banned gasoline exports to protect domestic supply in the face of oil shortages and rising costs that make it too expensive to produce.

i think even if jesus christ materialized in the sky and on every screen in the country, telling everyone in a booming voice, that the US must ban exports of gas/diesel, and the entirety of christendom joined with the America First bozos to call on MAGA and the republicans to ban the export gas/diesel, it still wouldn’t happen.

the fossil carbon capital formation has rarely had a more enthusiastic champion than the current configuration of US government. and it looks like it just might become a victim of its own success by making it plain that the owners of fossil carbon extraction and refining infrastructure in the US will destroy anything that threatens to close their export channels.