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\n Donald Trump speaks to press as he departs the South Lawn in Washington, DC, on Friday Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
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A DIESEL EXPORT ban was \u201cnever really on the table\u201d, Donald Trump has claimed after leading G7 nations bowed to White House pressure and agreed to release 100 million barrels of fuel and oil from emergency stocks.<\/p>\n
The US president said Europe had done \u201ca great thing\u201d by drawing on its reserves under the threat of a block on stateside supplies.<\/p>\n
A ban would have left European countries competing with each other to find an alternative source and increased demand driving up the already record-high costs at the pumps, driven by the US war with Iran.<\/p>\n
Speaking as he left the White House to head for Alabama on the campaign trail, the president said he would not impose a diesel export ban and suggested it had never been an option, despite repeatedly saying in recent weeks that the measure was being considered.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it was never really on the table. But what Europe did was a great thing,\u201d Trump said when asked by an AFP reporter if a US export ban was now off the table.<\/p>\n
Trump added: \u201cI asked for it. Europe has a lot of diesel, and they\u2019re going to be making a major world contribution \u2013 and so are we.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re not going to be doing the export ban, we\u2019re going to be doing what we\u2019re supposed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Donald Trump speaks to press as he departs the South Lawn in Washington, DC, on Friday Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
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Trump had first said he backed a diesel export ban \u2013 which would have cut prices for US consumers but put pressure on supplies elsewhere around the world \u2013 on 22 September.<\/p>\n
He said as recently as Thursday that the United States was still considering the idea as his administration put pressure on Europe to tap its supplies.<\/p>\n
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stood in for Andy Burnham on Friday\u2019s leaders\u2019 call while the prime minister attended his father\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n
Miliband wrote on X: \u201cToday members have agreed coordinated measures to stabilise energy supplies, build resilience in supply chains and shield households and businesses from price shocks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The G7 statement said the release of reserves would begin immediately and last four months, with a \u201csubstantial\u201d amount of diesel being made available within 20 days.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s Republican Party faces losing control of Congress in midterm elections next month amid voter anger over the conflict and its effect on energy prices.<\/p>\n
With reporting from PA and AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 2 hrs ago A DIESEL EXPORT ban was \u201cnever really on the table\u201d, Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63461,969,1813,9658,63615,52935,42,43,6000,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-643568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-diesel","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-fuel","tag-fuel-prices","tag-g7","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}