U.S. Interior Secretary: Implementing an export ban will hardly curb high U.S. gasoline prices.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on the 14th that even if the United States banned oil or fuel exports, it would be difficult to change the situation of persistently high domestic gasoline prices in the United States. Burgum told media reporters in Houston, Texas, on the same day while attending a G20 energy meeting: "If we thought an export ban could potentially lower gasoline prices, we would consider it, but that is not the case." According to him, if an export ban were imposed on U.S. oil, gasoline, or diesel products, it could prompt other countries to take retaliatory measures and stop exporting energy to some U.S. states, which would harm consumers in those states. He specifically cited California as an example, implicitly criticizing this state, governed by Democrats, for closing multiple local refineries and relying more on imported energy, resulting in its fuel prices being among the highest in the United States.