Export ban is a moron's solution.

It will solve nothing.

The issue is distribution, getting the diesel and heating oil where it is needed.

There are no pipelines from the fields to the west coast and the pipeline to the northeast is running at full capacity.

Meaning maybe rerouting shipping (against the law btw), but that will cause a disruption itself as the new routes are planned, shipping is diverted etc.

Will the ban be lifted by the time that all gets worked out? Probably

So, the refineries will have this excess capacity that they can't ship to other countries and can't distribute quickly enough to where it is needed in the US, so they will slow production

Which will slow production of gasoline and other petroleum products from the refinery process.

the basic law of supply and demand means rising prices

To say nothing of the retaliation from other countries due to the harm we will cause them

so, yeah, really bad idea.

For the uninformed

Crude oil is pumped from the ground and transported to a refinery.

Refineries have a maximum capacity that they can refine the crude oil into useable product-bunker oil, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, etc.

Our refineries are working at maximum capacity

We have limited storage capacity for this oil like those big tanks you see near highways

So that refined product has to be distributed

We export around 1/4 of that capacity or around 1.5 million barrels per day

If piggy says no exporting oil (which would be socialism btw), then the 1.5 million barrels per day has to go somewhere.

Pipeline distribution is maxed out.

So, if it isn't exported and cannot be put into the overland distribution network, where does it go?

Strategic petroleum reserve? Well, that sort of defeats the purpose of the export ban doesn't it. And filling the SPR when prices are high is well dumb

It can be put on ships and shipped to NYC and Boston and Maine and Seattle and San Fran etc

Yes, but switching to that model will take time as ships need to be rerouted, ports have to have shipping capacity, oil storage and trucking needs to be available.

That sort of distribution will take time

And what is the incentive to the oil companies? This is price control, hitting their profits

They will, of course, slow down refining so the oil can meet distribution, with that reduction goes gasoline, kerosene etc.

So, does piggy order the oil companies to keep their refining capacity up? Now that is serious socialism