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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: This is a casual but urgent expert interview. The hosts, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bring their signature blend of curiosity and dry humor to a high-stakes conversation about the oil market.
- The Key Players:
- The Hosts: Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway. They have a great, relaxed chemistry, bouncing off each other with jokes about "perma-doomers" and the absurdity of the situation.
- The Guest: Rory Johnston, founder of Commodity Context and an all-around "oil nerd." He’s the perfect guest for this moment: a calm, data-driven expert who is nonetheless deeply alarmed.
- The Vibe: Intense & Educational. The tone is serious, but the hosts’ banter keeps it from being bleak. It feels like listening to smart friends try to understand a terrifying, once-in-a-lifetime event.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Rory Johnston**
- 2 (06:01) **The Iran War Risk Was Known, But the Shock Was Not**
- 3 (10:31) **The Product Markets Are Breaking First (Jet Fuel & Refining)**
- 4 (16:01) **Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR): Why They Haven't Been Tapped**
- 5 (21:04) **The Compounding Problem: Duration Makes Everything Worse**
- 6 (24:44) **Demand Destruction: Not Just Price, But Scarcity**
- 7 (29:50) **The Path to $200+ Oil**
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Show Notes
Oil has obviously spiked massively since the start of the war with Iran. And if you look at various end products, such as jet fuel, the surge is even more extreme. And if the war is prolonged, or if the Strait of Hormuz continues to be functionally blocked, then this could just be the start of an even bigger spike. On this episode, we speak with Rory Johnston, the author of the Commodity Context newsletter. Rory is typically a very level headed guy, and not a doomer at all. And even he is quite alarmed. He says that the persistent closure of the Strait of Hormuz is such big disruption to contemplate that it’s typically used as the worse case scenario in industry thought experiments. He walks us through how oil could go to $200 a barrel or beyond, resulting in higher prices at the pump for American consumers, and perhaps significant shortages in the rest of the world.
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