G7 countries agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude from strategic reserves over four months after a White House campaign urged European governments to draw fuel stocks or face possible U.S. diesel-export restrictions. President Donald Trump later said the United States would not authorize a diesel-export ban, calling it never seriously considered and never really on the table. Prediction-market odds of an announcement by the end of October fell to 7% from 10%. The reserve release followed record European diesel prices and refinery and supply disruptions linked to the Trump administration’s war against Iran, Russia’s war in Ukraine, Russian export restrictions and possible tighter Chinese product exports.