https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-daily-chart-long-expensive-cold-winter-ahead.php
The Daily Chart: Long, Expensive, Cold
Winter Ahead
PowerLine, by Steven Hayward
Original Article
Posted By: redpackman, 10/18/2022 1:00:12 AM
Never mind shortages of natural gas here and abroad: we may be running short of diesel fuel before long. Energy analyst John Kemp reported the troubling picture last week: Global shortages of middle distillates such as diesel, gas oil and heating oil are intensifying rather than easing – making it more likely a relatively severe slowdown in the business cycle will be necessary to rebalance the market. U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil depleted to 106 million barrels on Oct. 7, the lowest seasonal level since the government began collecting weekly data in 1982.