If the Strait of Hormuz doesn't open soon, as seems likely, there will be a massive economic crash

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30. Diesel is often made from mideastern crude while gasoline is made from US crude

That is a big driver of this problem.

Plus as the supply of the precursor crude is chiked off it becomes more difficult to catch up because yo uneed diesel to move the stuff that you use to make diesel and then to move the final product again.

It is one of the reasons why the Alaskan pipeline was so critical to the US economy, it made a cheap efficient way to move large amounts of crude oil without using diesel to do it.