Trump Put The Squeeze On Europe. It Worked.

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion spent the past week press­ing Euro­pean gov­ern­ments to release diesel from their emer­gency stock­piles, warn­ing that Wash­ing­ton could restrict U.S. diesel exports if they refused.
On Fri­day, the Group of Sev­en agreed to release 100 mil­lion bar­rels of crude oil and petro­le­um prod­ucts through the Inter­na­tion­al Ener­gy Agency over the next four months, with a “front­loaded sub­stan­tial diesel release” com­ing with­in the first 20 days.
“Europe has just agreed to release a mas­sive amount of their heav­i­ly stocked Diesel Oil,” Pres­i­dent T …