Tucker Carlson’s claim that the U.S. will run out of diesel fuel by Thanksgiving week is based on a misinterpretation of federal data. The numbers he cited don’t include the amounts of fuel produced at refineries or imported into the U.S.
"Thanks to the Biden administration’s religious war in Ukraine, this country is about to run out of diesel fuel," he said during his Oct. 27 show.
"There will be no deliveries because there’ll be no trucks, there’ll be no diesel generators and then, invariably, our economy will crash because everything runs on diesel fuel," Carlson said."Not on solar panels, not on wind farms — on diesel fuel."shared a snippet from Carlson’s show and his claim that diesel fuel will run out in the U.S. to encourage voters to vote against Democrats this midterm election.
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