https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/pacific-islands-oil-crisis
"When 53-year-old Agbar Mohammad pulled into a petrol station in Fiji in May,
he was expecting a queue. Instead, it was almost empty. “I could only see one
or two cars at the service station, which was very unusual,” Mohammad says.
The reason became clear very quickly: as Mohammad filled his car, the numbers
on the fuel pump climbed so much faster than the needle on his dashboard.
Normally he would put in about $40 of fuel, but this time $100 barely got his
60-litre tank halfway full.
The Pacific region is already at the forefront of the climate crisis thanks to
rising sea levels and increasing natural disasters. But the fuel crisis caused
by the US-Israel war on Iran is revealing another fossil-fuel based
vulnerability. The reliance of countries and territories in the Pacific on
imported oil is expected to hit economic growth and increase inflation. The
shortages are already showing up in the price of cassava, the cost of the
school run, and in businesses’ bottom lines."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
