by Simon August
The Daily Caller
The Malta-flagged tanker Agioi Fanendes took on 40,000 metric tons of diesel Thursday at Primorsk, a Russian port on the Baltic Sea, and is due in the U.S. Nov. 7, Reuters reported Friday, citing shipping data from the London Stock Exchange Group. Diesel averaged $6.32 a gallon nationally Friday, up from $3.63 a year earlier, according to the American Automobile Association.
“Additional diesel supply is welcome news for farmers, truckers, and families getting hammered at the pump, but one tanker isn’t going to solve our diesel supply problems,” Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.
The cargo holds almost 300,000 barrels, while Americans use about 3.6 million barrels of diesel a day, Max Pyziur, research director for refining and fuels, natural gas and electricity projects at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, said in a statement to the DCNF…
“The deal for Russian diesel imports will have little effect on diesel prices in the U.S.,” Steve Milloy, a senior policy fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute who served on Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team, said in a statement to the DCNF. “The shortage is large and the imports are relatively small.”
