Trump temporarily allows tax-free dyed diesel on U.S. highways
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday temporarily allowing red-dyed diesel, normally restricted to off-road uses, to be used by truckers and farmers on public highways as his administration seeks to reduce record fuel costs.
The fuel is generally used in farm equipment, construction machinery and other off-road vehicles and is exempt from the 24.4-cent-per-gallon federal tax applied to highway diesel. Its red dye identifies it as tax-exempt, and using it in road vehicles has ordinarily been illegal and subject to tax-evasion penalties.
According to CNBC, the order directs the Treasury secretary, in consultation with the Department of War, to defer collection of the federal highway-diesel excise tax through the end of this year without interest or penalties. Treasury was also told to explore ways to eliminate repayment of the deferred taxes. The White House estimated that truckers could save more than $100 per fill-up.
The national average diesel price exceeded $6 a gallon in September for the first time, CNBC reported. The Trump administration attributed the increase to tight global supplies linked to the war in Ukraine and limited refining capacity. Several states had already relaxed restrictions on dyed diesel this year in response to rising prices.
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WHAT THE EDITOR DID
The second model checked the writer's draft against the same sources and changed it before publication. Struck words were in the draft; underlined words are its corrections.
WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: The story needs two source-aligned corrections on the tax deferral timeframe and the administration's stated explanation for diesel prices. - "through the end of 2026": CNBC says the executive order deferred related taxes through the end of this year; the source excerpt's later reference to 'end of 2026' appears to be from the White House fact sheet, but the story overstates this as the order's operative timeframe in 2026 without reconciling the inconsistency. - "linked to the wars in Ukraine and Iran": The source says supply disruptions were triggered by the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, while the Trump administration cited tight global supply tied to the war in Ukraine and a lack of refining capacity; it does not say the administration attributed the increase to a war in Iran.
THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES
Trump temporarily allows tax-free dyed diesel on U.S. highways
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday temporarily allowing red-dyed diesel, normally restricted to off-road uses, to be used by truckers and farmers on public highways as his administration seeks to reduce record fuel costs.
The fuel is generally used in farm equipment, construction machinery and other off-road vehicles and is exempt from the 24.4-cent-per-gallon federal tax applied to highway diesel. Its red dye identifies it as tax-exempt, and using it in road vehicles has ordinarily been illegal and subject to tax-evasion penalties.
According to CNBC, the order directs the Treasury secretary, in consultation with the Department of War, to defer collection of the federal highway-diesel excise tax through the end of 2026this year without interest or penalties. Treasury was also told to explore ways to eliminate repayment of the deferred taxes. The White House estimated that truckers could save more than $100 per fill-up.
The national average diesel price exceeded $6 a gallon in September for the first time, CNBC reported. The Trump administration attributed the increase to tight global supplies linked to the warswar in Ukraine and Iran and limited refining capacity. Several states had already relaxed restrictions on dyed diesel this year in response to rising prices.
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