What do Joe Biden and Harry S. Truman have in common?

American stockpiles of distillate fuel are exceptionally low, which could mean higher costs for everything from trucking to farming to construction.

The US has just 106mn barrels of diesel & heating oil in commercial stocks; the last time inventories were that low in mid-October was in 1951, when Truman was in the White House. Typically, inventories should be 30% higher this time of the year.'

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