Diesel prices hit records as oil executives warn of fuel crisis

Across the United States, diesel prices have climbed to historic levels, pressing hardest on the truckers and small businesses that form the quiet backbone of the national economy. Oil executives, who rarely speak in the language of crisis, are now doing so — a signal that the constraints driving these prices may not resolve quickly. In regions like Utah and the Piedmont Triad, the burden is not theoretical: it is measured in compressed margins, deferred decisions, and the daily arithmetic of survival. This moment asks an old question in a new register — who bears the cost when the systems we