The U.S. national average price of diesel topped $6 a gallon in September for the first time ever, as fuel supply disruptions pushed up transportation costs in the country.
I’m not sure if you’re using a broken app or something but there is definitely text there. Here are the first three paragraphs.
President Donald Trump has allowec
the use of cheaper red-dyed diesel.
typically reserved for farm operations,
to be used more broadly in an attempt
to bring down record-high fuel costs
Trump signed an executive order
Monday evening stateside to
temporarily allow truckers and
farmers to use red-dved diesel -
which is exempt from highway fuek
taxes - and deferred related taxes on
the fuel through the end of this year
The tax-free diesel is typically used by
farm equipment, construction
machinery, trucks and other off-road
vehicles. It is therefore exempt from a
24.4-cent-per-gallon tax applied to
dliesel fuel sold for highway
transportation.
Here’s an archive of the article if you’re wanting to read it and having technical difficulties (or for anyone else who is; sorry, the Wayback Machine doesn’t capture the full article).
I was never going to assume you were lying about your experience if you claimed “there is no article”; it’d be such a batshit claim if you knew one existed.
Since we’re now insulting each other, I want you to know that shortly I will block you, as Lemmy is a much better place when we’re not interacting with people who make us want to insult each other. Goodbye.
I said “it’d be a batshit claim if” followed by something that I acknowledged wasn’t true – a hypothetical. As in it would’ve been batshit to knowingly lie about that. I understood why you couldn’t read the article, but why you couldn’t understand this basic if/then statement is beyond me.
Donnie is getting desperate.
Desperate Donnie has a nice ring to it.
Per search, red-dye diesel is untaxed.
So he just approved a tax break? Wow, feels weird.
In the most roundabout way possible. Just remove the tax on undyed diesel, then.
Also stated at least three times in the article you didn’t read – as early as the second paragraph of the main prose.
There is no text in the article, it’s just a headline. I can take a screen shot to prove it, but you’re just a nobody.
I’m not sure if you’re using a broken app or something but there is definitely text there. Here are the first three paragraphs.
Here’s what CNBC looks like in my browser.
https://i.postimg.cc/2y27s0pw/Screenshot-2026-10-06-at-09-01-39-Trump-allows-cheaper-diesel-on-highways-as-fuel-costs-surge.png
Here’s an archive of the article if you’re wanting to read it and having technical difficulties (or for anyone else who is; sorry, the Wayback Machine doesn’t capture the full article).
I was never going to assume you were lying about your experience if you claimed “there is no article”; it’d be such a batshit claim if you knew one existed.
This is what the CNBC link looks like in my browser backing up my “batshit claim”.
Since we’re now insulting each other, I want you to know that shortly I will block you, as Lemmy is a much better place when we’re not interacting with people who make us want to insult each other. Goodbye.
I said “it’d be a batshit claim if” followed by something that I acknowledged wasn’t true – a hypothetical. As in it would’ve been batshit to knowingly lie about that. I understood why you couldn’t read the article, but why you couldn’t understand this basic if/then statement is beyond me.