{"id":302913,"date":"2026-10-06T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=302913"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:22:18","slug":"trump-expands-access-to-tax-exempt-diesel-fuel-amidst-rising-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/302913\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump expands access to tax-exempt diesel fuel amidst rising fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand access to tax-exempt diesel that he unveiled from a rally stage in Nebraska, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/us-expected-unveil-plan-ease-limits-red-dyed-diesel-monday-sources-say-2026-10-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>High diesel prices, which shot to a record of about $6.50 a gallon last month, are a risk to Trump ahead of the November 3 midterm US elections in which control of Congress is at stake. Trump&rsquo;s Republican Party currently holds a narrow majority in the &#8288;Senate and House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Prices for the fuel integral to trucking goods have risen in response to the US-Israeli war on Iran and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the conflicts having led to attacks on refineries in the Middle East and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the directive will waive the off-road requirement for tax-free diesel and allow anyone to buy the red dye diesel fuel that is used by the agriculture industry and by some off-road vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are not going to need it long, I hope,&rdquo; Trump said of the waiver.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand access to tax-exempt diesel that he unveiled from a rally stage in Nebraska, Reuters writes. High diesel prices, which shot to a record of about $6.50 a gallon last month, are a risk to Trump ahead of the November 3 midterm US elections in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":302909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302914,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302913\/revisions\/302914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}