- News ## Trump's Now Using The Proposed Diesel Export Ban To Threaten European Allies There's no escaping the fact that Republicans completely bungled their war with Iran. Seven months in, higher fuel prices have cost Americans more than $100 billion at the pump, the U.S. has effectively exhausted its strategic oil reserve, everything's getting more expensive thanks to record diesel prices, and there's no victory in sight. Republicans have even getting desperate enough to float a potential diesel export ban that would limit which customers private companies could sell diesel to. After that…