Reading or watching the news the last few days, not only wants me to go live in a cave but has me wondering why markets have remained relatively calm. We didn’t start the fire, but collectively we need to fix it. As job growth was revised down by almost a million jobs along with contraction in manufacturing rates and trucking tonnage, it is all but expected we will see an interest rate reduction next week. Inventory and demand figures of finished fuels support a slowing economy. Diesel implied demand is down 2.3% while gasoline is flat year over year. As a whole, I would have expected to see prices tank, yet we have remained in a tight bubble. Supporting pricing has come mostly on the world stage as Israel latest strike on Hamas leaders occurred inside Qatar, a nation that shares no borders with Israel. Additionally, Poland along with NATO planes, shot down Russian strike drones violating Polish air space that had either terribly bad aim or took a wrong turn in Belarus. Many pointing that this a classic Putin flex. Don’t expect to see a massive drop in pricing overnight. Remain close with your supplier as you may see some tightness in supply hit in the next few weeks as demand forecasts start to shift. As always, DKB has got you covered with plenty of product and trucks to get it to you.