Trump Says Lack of Refineries, Not Gas Prices, Is the Problem

This is a rhetorical shift rather than a policy one: by naming refining capacity as the binding constraint, the argument moves the debate away from pump prices and toward downstream infrastructure, an area where US capacity has been a long-running structural issue. The absence of any mechanism or timeline leaves the practical impact unclear, and the separate nod to farmers on diesel signals that agricultural fuel costs remain a political pressure point. Whether either thread develops into an actual proposal is the open question.