# Road fuels in the balance on Colonial Pipeline and Covid recovery | S&P Global

> S&P Global Platts reporters discussed the road fuel markets in a podcast episode. They covered the May 7 Colonial Pipeline outage, which raised fears of US Atlantic Coast fuel shortages, and easing Covid restrictions.

- Date: 2021-05-20 · published 2021-05-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/47278-road-fuels-in-the-balance-on-colonial-pipeline-and-covid-recovery-s-and-p-global
- Commodities: [ULSD / Diesel](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DIESEL.md)

## Why it matters

The discussion highlights that Colonial-related supply risk and demand recovery both affect diesel and gasoline prices. It offers no new supply event that would move prices on its own.

## Read by commodity

- DIESEL: neutral

## Sources

- spglobal.com: https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/podcasts/oil-markets/052021-colonial-pipeline-gasoline-diesel-covid-fuel-shortage-europe

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