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No, the U.S. is not going to run out of diesel fuel in 25 days
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A major U.S. diesel fuel supplier warned of an oil "shortage" on the East Coast Monday and suggested that it could cause prices on a variety of consumer goods to rise in the near term.
But the tight supply of diesel fuel is no cause for panic, and the U.S. is not going to run out of it, according to energy market experts.
On Tuesday, headlines indicating that the U.S. is down to 25-day supply of diesel proliferated. Fox News host Tucker Carlson last week tweeted that "this country is about to run out of diesel fuel."
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