The Distraction: Gas Prices Are Just the Beginning Turn on the news and it’s the same story. Gas prices. Pain at the pump. But that’s surface-level noise. A headline problem. A convenient talking point. The real damage? It’s buried deep in the supply chain. Out of sight. Out of mind. Until it hits your wallet—and your dinner table. This isn’t just about fuel. It’s about everything. The Strait of Hormuz: The Choke Point That Changed Everything Roughly a fifth of the world’s energy flows through one narrow passage—the Strait of Hormuz. Now it’s disrupted. That means more than oil shocks. It means a bottleneck on the raw materials that modern life depends on: Aluminum for construction and manufacturing Helium for…
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