Patrick De Haan
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“basically pulled all of the small levers that a president can pull, and we're still seeing prices very elevated”
Patrick De Haan · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-09
De Haan believes Trump has pulled all the small levers available to a president while fuel prices remain elevated.
“has worked to push prices down to some degree”
Patrick De Haan · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-09
De Haan said Trump's diesel announcement has worked to push prices down to some degree.
“A lot of that is likely due to some of the manoeuvres that we've seen the Trump administration employ over the last couple of weeks,”
Patrick De Haan · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-09
De Haan said modest recent declines in fuel prices were likely due to manoeuvres by the Trump administration.
“The only way out of this to reduce gas prices in a meaningful way is solve one or both of the geopolitical tensions that are causing high prices,”
Patrick De Haan · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-09
De Haan said reducing gas prices meaningfully requires resolving one or both geopolitical tensions causing high prices.
“That may be difficult to obtain ahead of the midterm elections,”
Patrick De Haan · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-09
De Haan said cooperation from Congress to suspend the federal gasoline tax may be difficult to obtain before the midterm elections.
“Diesel trades on a world market, just like corn. farmers don’t sell cheaper to Americans, and refiners can’t either since they buy crude at global prices. force a lower price and they’ll make less diesel. less supply means higher prices, not lower,”
Patrick De Haan · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-25
De Haan argued in a post on X that forcing lower diesel prices would reduce supply and ultimately raise prices.
“An export ban could temporarily depress Gulf Coast diesel prices. But there's no guarantee that relief reaches the regions with the highest prices, and over time it could cut refinery runs and tighten supplies of other fuels, gasoline included,”
Patrick De Haan · said 2026-09-21 · reported 2026-09-22
De Haan commented in an X post on the potential consequences of restricting U.S. diesel exports.
“a lot of states are seeing pretty monumental jumps”
Patrick De Haan · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16
A GasBuddy analyst says many states are seeing large jumps in gas and diesel prices.
“Until something happens to deescalate these geopolitical tensions, prices will keep going higher,”
Patrick De Haan · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16
De Haan says prices will keep rising until geopolitical tensions deescalate.
“there's really no signs of when this might start to slow down.”
Patrick De Haan · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16
De Haan says there are no signs yet of when price increases might slow down.