Best of the Program | Guest: Tristan Harris | 9/21/26
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Why have diesel prices nearly doubled and how does it affect everyday consumers?
So on today's podcast, uh, we tell you all the things that are going on. There's a lot of stuff that is building up, and it starts with the Russian refineries and diesel. The you know, the Trump Iran war, that's your gas price. The Biden Ukraine war? That's diesel. And that one is extraordinarily concerning. Both of them hurt. Diesel, when you hear the details of what why diesel is now six twenty six a gallon, um you will understand, hey, maybe I should prepare for a tough time that might be coming my way. Also, Tristan Harris returns to the program to talk more about AI and leftist colonialism. Who who do these people on the left think they are? Wait until you hear this story, all on today's podcast.
You're listening to The best of the Glenn Beck program. Okay, I don't know if you saw what happened, but this is going to affect you deeply. And it's fuel that, I mean, unless you drive a truck, you don't usually buy. The national average right now for diesel is six dollars and twenty-nine cents a gallon. A year ago, it was three dollars and seventy-three cents. California, it is over eight. In Europe, It is seventeen dollars. Okay. For the first time in history, every region in the country is over six dollars a gallon for diesel. Most of us don't buy diesel, but you're going to pay for every gallon of it anyway. Gasoline is a bill that we all see every week. It's printed on a sign forty feet in the air. And when you know when you go up and they change it, you're like, oh crap.
You combine the errands, you get mad because you're having to pay that gas price. Diesel doesn't work like that. Diesel moves the thing before you own it. It's in the tractor that planted it. It's in the combine that cut it. It's in the semi that hauled it to the elevator, the locomotive that took it to the mill, the truck that took it to the warehouse, you know, the truck that took it to the store, the van that put, you know, put that box on your port. And so by the time a can of soup or whatever you have is in your hand, Diesel has touched it six or seven times, and not once did it print a number that you could read. So the diesel price never arrives as the diesel price. It arrives at the grocery bill, um a season late, under somebody else's name.
What's happening right now is very concerning. There are two different stories that people keep mashing into one, and it's not one story, it's two stories. First, let me start with Iran. The Iran war raised the floor under everything. Crude got tight when the Gulf got dangerous, and everything made from crude went up. Gasoline is at four dollars thirty two cents. The SP Global said last week it no longer expects Middle East production back to pre war levels by the end of twenty twenty seven. That's the broad one. And that one shows up at the pump that we see, and it shows up immediately. That's the Iran War. Diesel is something entirely different. The Ukraine war is doing something very narrow, and for diesel specifically, much, much worse.
You can't drone a barrel of oil out of the ground, but you can burn down the machine that turns that oil into diesel, and that is exactly what Ukraine is doing. They have spent now a year doing this methodically, plant by plant. I think Russia has thirty-two diesel plants and twenty-two of them have been hit now. The international agency or energy agencies uh says that um through the first eight months of this year, Russian refineries were successfully hit an average once every three days. They can't repair 'em, they can't keep up. Oxford Institute, twenty-two of thirty-four refineries attacked in twenty twenty six. That's three quarters of them. Three quarters of them. Russia's refinery uh has fallen now to its output, fallen to its lowest level in more than twenty years.
Diesel production is down roughly thirty percent. Then Over the weekend, a Moscow refinery, a quarter of a million barrels a day. Sixteen miles away from the Kremlin, in what Russia is calling the largest drone barrage of the war. Now Why am I starting the show with this today?
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