03 | Electric World Order | Demand destruction

About this episode

The episode discusses how the Middle East war will impact global energy strategies and the shift towards clean energy technologies.

How is the Middle East war going to change the energy strategies of many countries? Global powers have long relied upon the threat of cutting off fossil energy flows – or the revenues from selling them – to discipline and coerce other countries. The US has done this for decades with oil. Five of the seven countries attacked by the US under the second Trump administration are rich in oil. But the emergence of cheap clean energy tech and electrification complicates the picture. What can h...

Topics covered

• energy strategies
• Middle East war
• fossil energy
• clean energy
• electrification

Keywords

• energy strategies
• Middle East
• fossil fuels
• clean energy
• electrification
• US oil policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US

Places: Middle East

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