Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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And so even though the Iranians, by closing the Strait, and the Americans with the blockade, have taken 13 million barrels a day off of the global market, and that's a lot, the Chinese are actually importing five million barrels a day less.
And that is a massive reduction of strain and stress on the global energy market.
On top of that, there is a higher level of energy going through the east-west route from Saudi Arabia.
You've got a couple million barrels avoiding the strait going through overland UAE,
And you have some diversification and efficiency gains.
So there is a cost.
That cost is being paid, even at the pump, over $4 right now, on average a gallon in the U.S.
It would have been about $3.30 if you take the Iran war out.
So that is a cost of, you know, about $4.
$600, $700 per family for every family in America because of this war.
And that's just the gas price.
That's not other inflation.
We're not looking at fertilizer.
We're not looking at helium.
We're not looking at long-term food, any of that.
We're not looking at the direct cost of the infrastructure damage that has to be rebuilt.
We're certainly not looking at the civilians that have been killed in Iran and the hundred plus billion dollars of damage to their economy.
All of that is destructive.
And yet...
If we went back to the end of February, the beginning of March, every market participant would have expected this would have been substantially worse.
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