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Trump wants to take a page out of the Biden energy playbook
President Donald Trump is considering a ban on US diesel exports to lower costs, a strategy mirroring the Biden-era LNG export pause he once vowed to dismantle.
Trump previously slammed the Biden-Harris 'war on energy,' but now faces pressure from Republicans citing sky-high prices affecting farmers, truckers, and construction workers amid conflict with Iran.
Tom Kloza, chief energy adviser at Gulf Oil, warned the potential ban is a 'worse version of the LNG pause' that would fail to lower costs while chilling investment.
Natasha Kaneva, head of global commodities strategy at JPMorgan, told clients on Thursday that a 30-day ban would initially reduce prices but refiners would lack storage space, forcing crude runs to fall by day 31.
Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM, labeled the shift a 'classic lose-lose proposition' driven by election-year populism, arguing even free-market purists are embracing interventionist policies.
In January 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump harshly criticized the Biden government for freezing approvals for new plants to export liquefied natural gas from the United States.