The Weekly Hoon: The escalating Middle East fuel crisis

About this episode

The episode discusses the escalating Middle East fuel crisis and its implications on geopolitics, the economy, and climate change.

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics here, along with special guest Roger Dennis , an independent strategist. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the rise of reactionary and nationalist political parties globally, including in New Zealand. * Bernard and Cathrine talked about the latest WMO report on the climate in 2025 and why New Zealand’s oil consumption rose to a five-year high last year. * Bernard, Peter and Robert talked about the latest news in the Iran conflict. * Bernard, Peter and Roger talked about the preparedness of New Zealand organizations for such a crisis. * Peter referred to this video by LedbyDonkeys as the skateboarding dog. The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale

Guests: Cathrine Dyer, Roger Dennis

Topics covered

• Middle East fuel crisis
• geopolitics
• economy
• climate change
• nationalist political parties
• New Zealand oil consumption
• preparedness for crisis

Keywords

• Middle East
• fuel crisis
• geopolitics
• climate change
• New Zealand
• oil consumption
• nationalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WMO

Places: New Zealand, Iran

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