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The Oil Crisis Is Far From Over

A U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding regarding conflict settlement is unlikely to prevent an imminent energy crisis caused by rapidly depleting global oil and petroleum product inventories. The suspension of tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz during the conflict, which normally carries about 20% of global oil supplies, has depleted strategic reserves that previously acted as market buffers.

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The outline of conditions and topics for a negotiated settlement of the U.S.-Iran conflict, called a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and signed by both sides last week, in all probability won't prevent the approaching energy cliff. That cliff will be the result of fast-depleting commercial and strategic inventories of oil and oil products around the world that have acted as buffers in the wake of the suspension of almost all tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz during the conflict - tankers believed to carry about 20 percent of the world's…

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