Brian Parker

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money money money · economic update: fuel prices, oil, interest rates & inflation (with Brian Parker, Chief Economist at ART) · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

You know, a lot of the sulfur we use in fertilizer comes as a byproduct of oil refining.

And so it's going to impact food prices over time as well.

So the impacts are likely to last a bit longer than just the impact on the petrol price.

And even if peace were to break out tomorrow, it could be many, many weeks, if not a few months, before we start to see supply chains normalise.

There's still this massive backlog of

of ships waiting to get through the strait.

But not only that, there's a lot of production facilities in the Middle East that have basically been closed down to get ready for – to really cope with this disaster.

So it'll take time for them to sort of get back up and running, notwithstanding also the damage that's been done, which will need to be repaired.

Yeah, exactly.

So you've got all these ships currently, um, that are stranded effectively, um,

in the Gulf.

And even if you reopen the Straits, it's going to take a while for that backlog to get through.

They've got to then unload and go back and collect more stuff.

So like I said, this is going to take time.

Even if we do get a settlement of this war tomorrow, the impacts on the economy and the impacts on the prices we pay for a range of different things could persist for quite a while.

Well, that's a significant part of the market.

Right.

And, you know, that's a significant restriction in supply.

Yeah.

So, 20% is a big deal.

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