Patricia Cohen
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206 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 May
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That's because a lot of the production stopped when the war started.
So even though the facilities were intact, they turned it off.
And that's going to keep prices high for a while.
And then there is all these other uncertainties that are going into energy prices.
How long is that going to last?
Well, I mean, the U.S.
has already released more supplies from its petroleum reserves, and the International Energy Agency has done that as well to ease supply.
Mm-hmm.
One other thing that has happened is that President Trump has lifted the sanctions on Russia, which a lot of countries in Europe are against and is very disturbing, obviously, to President Zelensky and Ukraine.
Exactly.
So Russian oil had been selling at a discounted price, probably about $60 a barrel before.
And now it's about $90 a barrel.
And also, this sounds crazy, but the U.S.
has lifted sanctions on Iran's exports of oil, right?
Exactly.
I mean the one thing obviously that would go a long way in terms of helping this problem as well as others is the development of alternative energy sources, particularly renewable energy sources.
That's a huge investment up front.
But actually the cost, once you do that investment of solar and wind, is really much lower.
And so I think that you will see that.
There will be more development, maybe not in the United States because it's such a political issue here, but other places, development of solar, wind, and I do think nuclear power.
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