US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

hollow-moe

Oh my, by all means please do!

ShadowOfThePit

Non-Paywalled article: https://politicstoday.org/us-presses-france-and-germany-to-r... Why doesn't he ban exports right away, forcing Europe to use their stockpiles anyways? Is it that he can't? So the entire threat is moot? Is he thinking of using the Graham bill to threaten +100% tarrifs for buying Russian gas?

GuestFAUniverse

Since when is bullying other countries alright? Those are strategic reserves for real emergencies. To keep the show going _at all_. What a fucking narcistic war monger clique.

kasperni

Yeah, he is just going to ban it anyway a month from now. So EU will be at the mercy of USA/Russia.

Frieren

The US has become a very short-term individual interest focused country. There is no long term vision for the country, there is no care for their own citizens, only today's president's interest matter. Tomorrow doesnt exists. screw-the-future is their warmongering motto. This goes beyond the price of diesel. It is an attack on basic survivability of the nations that may depend on that reserves in the future. Never vote for a death cult.

thefz

Every day I wake up, open the news, and let out a slightly louder breath out of my nostrils at the latest boutade from Trump. Then I go out with my day because nothing he says is relevant in any way.

clauderoux

In France, we see a move to buy second hand EV, which up to now were a very hard sell on the car market. When a liter of petrol costs up to €2.3, it is pretty obvious that people will think twice in keeping their thermic car any longer.

GJim

Mango Mussolini is afraid he will suffer at the US midterm elections, hence bullying Europe to use thier stratigic reserves (during a war he started!) to help lower diesel prices in the USA. The USA has lost the plot.

mesk

And the question is: Who cares ?

harrouet

History will remember this administration as a traitor to Europe and its values. Right when the US needs allies.

neuroelectron

it all comes down to if they have Epstein files on the powerful people running Germany and France

theaustein7

Is this a temporary pause on issuing new tariff threats?

maelito

We're a colony.

KronisLV

> Trump seeks to bring down record US diesel prices If only he could have avoided causing the high prices in the first place so he wouldn't have to try to strongarm his "allies" now. I hate this timeline.

freitasm

Start a stupid war, then try to exploit allies. Masterful gambit.

surgical_fire

I hope this time around European leaders grow cojones, however small they can be, and start treating the US as the enemy hostile country it is. It will inflict short-term pain in Europe, but in the long-term it will be better. It's like ripping out a bandaid.

apexalpha

"It is in Europe’s best interest to work with the United States as we pursue multiple pathways to boost the supply of refined products and lower costs for consumers," one of the sources, a US official, told Reuters. It is currently in Europe's best interest to force this clown to back down in Iran. I will happily take €5 per liter (not gallon) for a month just to annoy Trump in the slightest.

Ekaros

Every day I think it would be so much simpler just to let Iran have nukes and stop the sanctions. Letting everyone have nukes would solve so many issues.

alyeska2

Why aren't Small Government and Free Market Republicans more outraged at the current administration's betrayals of these core components of American conservativism? The budget deficit is the largest in history, the federal government size has increased, taxes on imports (tariffs) have increased in politically manipulative ways and now the government is meddling with the market price of commodities. Even if you don't care about Europe or democracy or pollution or foreign policy... this is still just bad capitalism and bad big-government manipulation preventing the free market from correctly solving problems and establishing an optimal price for goods.

jmclnx

All this shows is the Trump Admin has no concept of economic theory. Even if the whole EU release twice that amount now, prices, if they decrease at all before the mid-terms, it will probably be a couple of pennies. But I expect all it will do is temporarily stop the price of diesel from raising. All it will do is allow Spectators to cash in on profits between now and the midterms.