The United States is not short of crude oil. It is short of spare refining capacity, spare distillate inventory, and spare time. Diesel is the pressure point. National retail diesel is printing all-time highs near $6.40 a gallon. California is above $8.30. Midwest pump prices are breaking state records after ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery in Illinois […]
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West Texas Intermediate is trading near $101 a barrel. National gasoline is $4.44 a gallon. Those are the conditions that usually refill rig lines and permit queues. In Colorado, they have not. As of September 17, 2026, Colorado operators had filed only 335 drilling permits over the trailing 24 months. In the last 90 days, […]
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September 17, 2026 Unseasonable heat is pushing power systems that serve more than 100 million people across the United States and Canada into a tight operating window — just as plants and transmission equipment that were scheduled for fall maintenance are still needed online. Temperatures are running more than 20°F above normal in parts of […]
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The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 now sits on President Donald Trump’s desk after the House passed it 262-159 on September 16. The Senate had already approved it 86-11. The bill targets Russia’s energy sector, officials, banks, oligarchs, and shadow fleet while authorizing the president to impose tariffs of up […]
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The 7-1-1 Board of Supervisors vote directs staff to draft a resolution for a later October vote, with a proposed retroactive effective date of September 15. Officials emphasized it is not a legal moratorium under Virginia’s Dillon Rule, but a temporary pause on board-level reviews while Phase 2 data-center standards are completed. Board Chair Phyllis […]
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Diesel prices in the United States have smashed through records, topping $6.31 a gallon nationally as of September 16, 2026. Truckers, farmers, and households feel it immediately. Heating oil, chemically similar to diesel, is following the same path. With midterms weeks away, the political pressure is intense. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he is […]
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Bernadette Wilson, Alaska Republican for Governor, stops by the Energy News Beat Podcast. Alaska is not a remote afterthought. It is one of the United States’ most strategically important resource bases for energy security, defense-critical minerals, and food supply. For two decades, its oil output declined as legacy North Slope fields matured and new projects […]
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The question in Washington is whether President Trump will treat that extra Russian oil as a problem to sanction—or as barrels he can use to keep gasoline and diesel from becoming a midterm disaster. That is the market story of September 15, 2026. It is also a political story. Prices jumped because Saudi’s safety valve […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on America Outloud by Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaugh and Steve Curtis, and we recommend following all of them. The recent shift in the national conversation around nuclear-generated electricity is encouraging. After decades of political hesitation, federal and state leaders are once again speaking positively about nuclear power’s role […]
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The Federal Reserve can raise rates. The Treasury can issue bills. Neither institution can weld a crude distillation unit back together after a drone strike, add inches to a California products pipeline, or refill Gatun Lake. That is the story of September 2026: crude is still findable; diesel is not. The constraint has moved downstream, […]
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