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  https://sonar21.com/the-squeeze-reaches-the-runway-the-distillate-war-is-now-cutting-flights/ https://etouffoir-blogspot-com.translate.goog/2026/09/la-pression-atteint-la-piste-la-guerre.html?_x_tr_sl=hl&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr 18 September 2026 by Larry C. Johnson For most of this year I have been making an argument about a fraction of a barrel. Not the barrel itself — the flat price of crude has been a headline anyone can read — but the middle of it: the narrow band of the distillation column where diesel and jet fuel come from, and where the real damage of the Iran war was always going to land. I called America’s role in it a paradox — a shortage it is supplying, not suffering — and I argued that the country’s genuine vulnerability was never crude availability but the refinery-to-fuel chain that turns a barrel into something an engine can burn. That argument has now stopped being abstract. It is hitting the commercial airline industry. In the past two weeks, America...