Why Oil Prices Could Hit $200 a Barrel Soon
New Zealand may still get fuel supplies, but escalating Middle East conflict could soon send petrol prices into economic shock territory.

New Zealand may still get fuel supplies, but escalating Middle East conflict could soon send petrol prices into economic shock territory.

For 40 years US war planners warned attacking Iran would trigger economic chaos, regional war and humanitarian catastrophe. Trump ignored all of it, and now the world may pay the price.

A fertiliser shock from the Iran conflict combined with a severe El Niño event could create the conditions for a catastrophic global famine.
The real danger from the Iran conflict may no longer be military defeat, but global economic collapse, fertiliser shortages and food insecurity spreading worldwide.

The biggest danger from the Iran conflict may not be oil prices, it may be the collapse of global food supply chains feeding billions of people.

The Iran conflict may be about to hit your supermarket bill. Fertiliser shortages, drought and collapsing crop economics are forming a dangerous global storm.

The Strait of Hormuz must reopen, but that doesn’t mean New Zealand should fight someone else’s war.

Should New Zealand join a US-led mission in the Strait of Hormuz, or stay out of another Middle East conflict entirely?

Trump’s Iran war is blowing out in cost and chaos, and may end up strengthening the very regime it was meant to crush.

Washington clutches its pearls over gunfire at a media gala while the real violence in Gaza, Iran and at the petrol pump keeps escalating.