General Discussion

they are being assisted by a more or less compliant media. It is obvious that releases from petroleum reserves are a very short term solution of a matter of days not months. The mention of fertilizer impact is fairly brief and here today and then they move it to the "been there done that" file.

The media also does a horrendous job of explaining that the problems caused by the misbegotten war on Iran can be one of price and availability or just price. US transportation fuels for example are not a supply issue but they are a price issue. Fertilizer will be both. For Asian countries, for example, transportation fuels are both a supply and price problem.

But the media just latches on to what is the easy metric for storytelling which is price. As always these days with the vast majority of media we don't get depth, nuance or context.