Cato’s Jones Act Waiver Tracker, as of Oct. 30, counted 337 voyages and 90.3 million barrels of gasoline, crude, jet fuel, diesel, propane and more — and called that a floor, not a complete tally. The West Coast, Puerto Rico and New England all used the waiver. Cargo must be loaded by 11:59 p.m. ET […]
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The 75,000-barrel rule is real—but it is not an expansion ban. Here is where America should look for practical refinery gains. By Energy News Beat | November 7, 2026 A refinery headline meets the family fuel budget For families watching the gas pump and small businesses paying diesel bills, “expand the refinery” sounds like welcome […]
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Diesel is $6.26 a gallon, $2.55 more than a year ago, and U.S. stocks just hit the lowest level for this time of year in EIA records. Wholesale prices have eased since our Oct. 14 report, but the IEA still says lost inventories are unlikely to be rebuilt before the second half of 2027. Here […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article was first Ran on America Outloud by Ronald Stein and Jason Hayes. Ronald Stein is a great friend of the ENB podcast and has interviewed by Stu Turley and we highly recommend following both great Energy Leaders. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s energy policy centers on: (1) Accelerating California’s transition to […]
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The country’s largest refiner earned more than five times what it made a year ago. Here is what a $45.70-a-barrel margin looks like on the sign at your gas station. By Energy News Beat | Nov. 3, 2026 If you filled up this summer and wondered where the money went, Marathon Petroleum just showed you […]
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Regular averaged $4.149 on Tuesday morning, the highest Election Day price on record in nominal dollars. Diesel was $6.288, and heating oil has started the winter above $6 a gallon. Ukraine is hitting Russian refineries again, and nine states are electing the people who set utility rates. Here is what each of those numbers does […]
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Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) has agreed to acquire LyondellBasell’s former Houston Refinery site for $320.5 million and plans to restart 165,000 barrels per day (bpd) of light sweet crude processing capacity by the end of 2027. The deal, announced October 30, 2026, expands Valero’s Gulf Coast refining footprint adjacent to its existing Houston plant […]
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Crude is not scarce. Diesel out of the Atlantic basin is — and the refineries that could make it are not where the barrels are, or configured to run them. American margins are near records while Asian margins have collapsed, and that gap is doing more to set the price at your pump than the […]
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On the night of October 30–31, 2026, Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Bashneft refining complex in Ufa, in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan, roughly 1,400–1,600 kilometers from the front lines. The attack came as Russian forces simultaneously hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure, leaving hundreds of thousands of households without power as winter approaches.BloombergKyivpost Bloomberg reported that Ukraine […]
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Europe’s refinery rethink is real, smaller than the headlines, and exactly the argument California needs to hear. The state cut 21.5% of its refining capacity in seven years, 64% of the entire national decline, and now buys a fifth of its gasoline across a three-week ocean voyage with no pipeline to fall back on. By […]
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