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  • 'We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history,' IEA chief tells CNBC

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    “We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history,” Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), told CNBC Thursday. “As of today, we’ve lost 13 million barrels per day of oil ... and there are major disruptions in vital commodities,” he told Steve Sedgwick virtually at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore. Birol has previously warned that the Iran war and ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz would result in “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced” and urged governments to bolster their resilience with alternative energy sources. “I expect, first of all, nuclear ... (full story)

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FlyingTurtle
Apr 23, 2026 5:50am
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“the largest energy crisis we have ever faced”

Trump should be proud that his crisis is bigger than all the others.
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Trader#E6DD
Apr 23, 2026 5:56am
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He's the only one doing something about climate change. Liberals talk and talk and talk but never get anything done. Trump is the true leader in the battle against climate change.
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FlyingTurtle
Apr 23, 2026 6:39am
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Very clever lol
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Goose423
Apr 23, 2026 7:24am
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How???

Trump isn’t “helping” climate change in any meaningful way if anything, he’s done the opposite. He pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement, pushed for more oil, gas and coal production, and rolled back environmental regulations on emissions and fuel efficiency.

So I'm guessing when you say he's doing "something" he's making it worse for the rest of us...
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Trader#E6DD
Apr 23, 2026 7:33am
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Fatih Birol is lying about the oil shortage then? Trump lowered carbon emissions more than any liberal ever has before and now liberals are complaining about it. You can't make this up.
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Trader#6DD3
Apr 23, 2026 7:42am
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What has the Paris Agreement done other than make EU dependent on Russian and Iran oil wells? Have you not been paying attention to what is going on?
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Trader#F705
Apr 23, 2026 5:59am
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He will come out 100 and say he won.
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m.karkhane
Apr 23, 2026 6:10am
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Yeah, bigger and more beautiful than others
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OutThere
Apr 23, 2026 6:13am
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The Iranian regime always had the ace of causing an energy crisis up its sleeves. It was a matter of time before unleashing their offensive. The condition to keep that ace up their sleeve was for them to be allowed to freely sponsor their proxies and destabilise half a dozen countries in the middle east to fight with Israel.
Anyone who backs the regime by declaring that they should have been left alone to continue their military activities outside their borders is in fact part of the problem of creating “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced”.
Trump didn't start this energy crisis. He only pushed the hands of the regime who had it on its mind for decades and had prepared to unleash it at an opportune moment. By standing by and letting the regime expend militarily, you wouldn't have solved the largest energy crisis. You would have only cloaked it for the regime and as such you would have been part of the regime. Are you part of the regime and saying exactly what it is saying right now?
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Trader#5D21
Apr 23, 2026 7:10am
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Funny how everyone forgets the bit where us Brits and the Yanks helped set the stage for this. 1953, we backed the coup against Mossadegh, ripped out Iran’s elected government and put the Shah back in. Decades of repression later, surprise surprise, you get the 1979 revolution and the regime everyone’s now complaining about.

Not excusing what they’re doing now at all their proxy wars and destabilisation are on them. But acting like this all just came out of nowhere and the West had nothing to do with it is total BS.

We helped build the fire, then act shocked by the smoke.
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Riziq-Cap
Apr 23, 2026 7:22am
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had to edit due to reporting......

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Trader#BEE2
Apr 23, 2026 5:54am
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Green energy cannot supply the demand needed to power everything attached to the grid. Energy demands are only increasing, and now the EU is talking about creating their own AI infrastructure that will require an enormous amount of energy to run. It's a digital world, everything has a battery that needs recharged at the end of the day, green energy cannot supply the demand needed.
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newfie4x
Apr 23, 2026 6:53am
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Trump is biding his time, creating pressure on the rest of the world dependant on oil to grow a set of balls and finally help rid the world of The Iranian Regime, eliminating both the oil and terrorism sponsorship issues at the same time. The Globalists want Trump to be defeated so they can continue to depopulate the world. Wake up people. Much larger world issues at stake here than our individual trading accounts.
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Riziq-Cap
Apr 23, 2026 6:58am
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newfie4x
Apr 23, 2026 9:08am
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Funny, Riziq-Cap, our resident moron muslim BOT is back after ignoring me on April 6th. Still speaking your shit, I see. The asshole ignores me so I can't reply to his comments while he can reply to mine. There are other ways to call him out, I'll reply to myself.
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BaliBoyz80
Apr 23, 2026 6:48am
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crisis energy but oil price drop and gold up ??
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TheDazman
Apr 23, 2026 8:38am
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Keep up the fear-mongering, it's very profitable.
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Trader#C10D
Apr 23, 2026 7:03am
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soon there will be no buyer of oil... excess production will die soon ..everything is moving EV and CHINA.
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