barrels

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Even if the war were to end tomorrow, diesel prices would still be elevated, Yawger said, because the U.S. has drawn down storage levels to “export barrels to everybody else in the universe.”

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Commercial crude-oil inventories excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve were down by 2.3 million barrels in the week ended May 1, the EIA said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Supply of distillates, which are products refined from crude oil and include diesel, has reached a roughly 20-year low at 102.3 million barrels in Wednesday’s EIA report, Yawger said.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

They amount to between 20,000 and 30,000 barrels of oil a day—a drop compared with the 13 million barrels a day that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has removed from the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton