The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & how NZ is handling it

The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & how NZ is handling it

From The Hoon by Bernard Hickey

March 19, 2026 · 55 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the Middle East fuel crisis, its implications for climate action, and features insights from various guests on related geopolitical and economic issues.

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 Dileepa Fonseka , who is a columnist and reporter for BusinessDesk-$. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the Iran war, the fuel crisis and Winston Peters’ move to block a ‘globalist’ WHO measure. * Bernard and Peter then spoke with Cathrine about increased demand for EVs and whether the fuel crisis represented a tipping point for climate action. * Then Bernard, Peter and Dileepa talked about the fuel crisis. 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 who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change…

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Hosts: Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale

Guests: Cathrine Dyer, Dileepa Fonseka

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Organizations: BusinessDesk

Places: Iran, New Zealand

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