Since nearly 70% of U.S. refining capacity is tooled for heavier crude (which we import), and NOT for the light sweet we predominantly pull from the ground, a forcing of our industry to run heavy sour could lower output by roughly 10-15% which would create higher fuel prices, as well as widen the discount of US benchmark prices vs global prices, thus lowering incentives to invest and produce more. But he's the president of the United States, surely the people around him know this. Which implies he is simply lying through his teeth. https://x.com/atrupar/status/2064739599058891210/video/1(𝐓𝐗𝐌𝐂)