A growing fuel shock triggered by the Iran war could soon ground flights around the world, an energy expert has warned — a prediction that stunned a CNN host live on air.

Appearing on CNN News Central, former US energy adviser Amos Hochstein said some airports could run out of jet fuel within a week as the closure of key shipping lanes strangles global energy flows. Host Kate Bolduan stopped him mid-interview to confirm the warning: “Full stop?” she asked. “Full stop,” Hochstein replied.

Hormuz blockade sends shock through global supply

The crisis began when Iran shut down the vital Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for joint US-Israeli military strikes.

Roughly a fifth of the world’s oil normally passes through the narrow shipping corridor. With the route effectively blocked, more than 1,000 ships are reportedly stranded in the Persian Gulf, triggering cascading disruptions across the energy market.

Fuel reserves have cushioned the immediate impact — but that buffer is rapidly eroding.

The domino effect hitting airlines

Jet fuel shortages could soon ripple through global aviation networks.

According to Hochstein, several airports are already restricting departures to preserve fuel supplies. If shipments remain blocked, some hubs could simply run dry in the coming days.

For travellers, the consequences may be immediate: fewer flights, soaring ticket prices and potential cancellations during the peak spring and summer travel season.

Shipping chokepoints deepen the crisis

The situation has worsened as Iran-aligned Houthi forces threaten vessels in another key maritime corridor, the Bab el‑Mandeb Strait linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

Together, the two disruptions have created a bottleneck for global shipping. Cargo vessels carrying oil, chemicals and consumer goods are taking longer routes — raising costs and slowing deliveries worldwide.

Every additional day of delay pushes prices higher.

Fuel shock spreads from Asia to the West

Asia felt the first impact because of its heavy reliance on Middle Eastern energy.

Now the shockwave is moving westward. In Europe, jet fuel prices have reportedly doubled within a month, while diesel costs are climbing across the United States.

The pressure is amplified by domestic vulnerabilities. A recent accident at a Valero Energy refinery in Texas temporarily cut refining capacity, reducing the margin for error in an already strained system.

The result is a fragile global supply chain — one accident, one blockade, or one delay away from a full-scale fuel crisis.

CNN host startled by expert's prediction about Iran war's impact on travel

The world should learn now the results of US' and Israel's warmaking.

26 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

The world should learn now the results of US' and Israel's warmaking.

Better now than waiting to learn once Iran developed nuclear weapons and destroyed the U.S. and Israel and it's allies.

Yeah they are only 2 weeks away ! 🤣

This should be great news to the global warming gang......right. Seeing as how commercial air travel is one of the worst things an individual can do to add to the problem.

Right.

3 minutes ago, blaze master said:

This should be great news to the global warming gang.

I suspect that the bombs and burning oil/gas fields kind of equal that out

then quite a few thousand less humans no longer breathing out C02 helps too right ?

3 minutes ago, johng said:

I suspect that the bombs and burning oil/gas fields kind of equal that out

then quite a few thousand less humans no longer breathing out C02 helps too right ?

A 50 to 80 percent drop in humans would be ideal.

1 minute ago, blaze master said:

A 50 to 80 percent drop in humans would be ideal.

Are you volunteering ?? I'm not .. send the warmongering politicians and all their families first and then all these supporting the war mongering politicians and their families too

after that perhaps the appetite for war might be somewhat diminished ?

but if not then send the climate alarmists notification of self deletion for the good of the planet

we saw that during the 'Covidiocy' most workers are 'non essential' stay home protect granny probably wouldn't be a big leap to (military grade psychological warfare)

nudge them into doing the 'right thing' 🤮

It seems that the trend is already towards a less fertile and rapidly aging population

I think the overpopulation 'problem' will solve itself naturally without these radical interventions but no doubt some evil mastermind is planing to do it anyway !

Do airlines refund cancelled flights if there is no jet fuel?

1 minute ago, still kicking said:

Do airlines refund cancelled flights if there is no jet fuel?

Sure, same as during covid, you'll probably have to wait 2 years on your money though

2 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Sure, same as during covid, you'll probably have to wait 2 years on your money though

Shame we just booked a flight to Swampi

47 minutes ago, blaze master said:

A 50 to 80 percent drop in humans would be ideal.

You go first. Show some commitment to the cause. I'm sure millions will celebrate and follow your lead.

You know you want to.

28 minutes ago, johng said:

Are you volunteering

Sure why not. Its either that or face the super bright future coming for humanity. Im sure greed and corruption will slow down in the coming decades while I get older.

1 minute ago, emptypockets said:

You go first.

You spoke to soon im afraid. Check comment above.

We have plenty of avgas for sale here. Send a tanker.

https://genius.com/Fear-lets-have-a-war-lyrics

There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many....

[Verse 1]
Let's have a war
So you can go and die
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We could all use the money
Let's have a war
We need the space
Let's have a war
Clean out this place

[Pre-Chorus]
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy

[Chorus]
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many

[Verse 2]
Let's have a war
Jack up the Dow Jones
Let's have a war
It can start in New Jersey
Let's have a war
Blame it on the middle-class
Let's have a war
We're like rats in a cage

[Pre-Chorus]
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy

[Chorus]
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many

[Verse 3]
Let's have a war
Sell the rights to the networks
Let's have a war
Have our wallets get fat like last time
Let's have a war
Give guns to the queers
Let's have a war
The enemy is within

[Pre-Chorus]
It already started in the city
Suburbia will be just as easy

[Chorus]
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many


RIP Paul Erlich the population loon

1 hour ago, blaze master said:

A 50 to 80 percent drop in humans would be ideal.

Supposedly the goal is 500 millions. Still have a long way to go. Accordingly with Bill Gates, "vaccines" will be responsible for a reduction of 15-20 % of the world population. Add to that wars and the messianic agenda of Bibi and Rebbe, it seems like we will get there soon. The Gods chosen people will inherit the Earth for themselves. Holy bagel, Batman!

1 minute ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

Accordingly with Bill Gates, "vaccines" will be responsible for a reduction of 15-20 % of the world population

Do you have a source for that, other than a FB post, or did you login under the wrong username?

43 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Shame we just booked a flight to Swampi

There is a silver lining to every cloud.

3 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Do you have a source for that, other than a FB post, or did you login under the wrong

I am sure if I had a depopulation agenda, It would be all over the news explaining exactly how that was going to be done. Maybe Georgia Guidestones can give us a clue.

7 minutes ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

I am sure if I had a depopulation agenda, It would be all over the news explaining exactly how that was going to be done. Maybe Georgia Guidestones can give us a clue.

Looking in the comments it was clear it is an on purpose edited video, so I went to look it up.

This is just 1 source of many.

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/bill-gates-didnt-say-he-wanted-to-use-vaccines-to-reduce-the-population/

Bill Gates didn’t say he wanted to use vaccines to reduce the population

“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion,” Gates said. “Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15%.”

The full video is 27 minutes and available on the TEDTalk website. Gates’ comment about the population was a fragment of his speech. He spoke largely about the types of energy and actions that produce CO2, and proposed a solution of energy measures, like nuclear, wind and solar, that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions a great deal by 2050.

His point about vaccines has been commonly misconstrued as a plot to depopulate the planet. In 2018, PolitiFact debunked a similar claim.

Melinda Gates wrote this in the former couple’s annual letter: “When more children live past age five, and when mothers can decide if and when to have children, population sizes don’t go up. They go down. Parents have fewer children when they’re confident those children will survive into adulthood. Big families are in some ways an insurance policy against the tragic likelihood of losing a son or a daughter.”

Gates wasn’t talking about reducing the population through vaccination. He and his former wife Melinda have repeatedly said that child mortality is lowered when families have access to life-saving vaccines and health care, allowing families to choose to have fewer children.

We rate this claim False.

2 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Looking in the comments it was clear it is an on purpose edited video, so I went to look it up.

This is just 1 source of many.

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/bill-gates-didnt-say-he-wanted-to-use-vaccines-to-reduce-the-population/

Bill Gates didn’t say he wanted to use vaccines to reduce the population

“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion,” Gates said. “Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15%.”

The full video is 27 minutes and available on the TEDTalk website. Gates’ comment about the population was a fragment of his speech. He spoke largely about the types of energy and actions that produce CO2, and proposed a solution of energy measures, like nuclear, wind and solar, that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions a great deal by 2050.

His point about vaccines has been commonly misconstrued as a plot to depopulate the planet. In 2018, PolitiFact debunked a similar claim.

Melinda Gates wrote this in the former couple’s annual letter: “When more children live past age five, and when mothers can decide if and when to have children, population sizes don’t go up. They go down. Parents have fewer children when they’re confident those children will survive into adulthood. Big families are in some ways an insurance policy against the tragic likelihood of losing a son or a daughter.”

Gates wasn’t talking about reducing the population through vaccination. He and his former wife Melinda have repeatedly said that child mortality is lowered when families have access to life-saving vaccines and health care, allowing families to choose to have fewer children.

We rate this claim False.

Thanks AI we can sleep in peace. I will trust Fact Checks 100%. Yes, as during the "pandemic", trust the science.

1 minute ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

Thanks AI we can sleep in peace. I will trust Fact Checks 100%. Yes, as during the "pandemic", trust the science.

This is NOT AI and there are hundreds of sources saying the same Stiddlemump

17 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

This is NOT AI and there are hundreds of sources saying the same Stiddlemump

This is a good article describing some of the wonderful work of Bill Gates and Jeff Epstein. He goes to explain citing sources and e-mails from the Epstein Files.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/epstein-pitched-jpmorgan-chase-plan-bill-gates-more-money-vaccines/

Quote:

According to Ji, the documents provide a roadmap for how a pandemic preparedness infrastructure was developed and how it helped make Event 201 possible.

“By the time Event 201 convened, the architecture … was no longer conceptual. It had been funded, structured, bonded, insured, staffed, and legally papered. What remained was the rehearsal,” Ji wrote.

September 2014 documents show that Gates disclosed his upcoming meeting with President Obama to Epstein, just as an adviser to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak sent Epstein an invitation to a private, off-the-record reception with Obama the following month.

Ji said the communications occurred during “the week Ebola was formally reclassified as a threat to international peace and security.” He said the timing is significant, as this “was the week the biosecurity state was born.”

According to Ji, these developments helped activate the infrastructure outlined in Project Molecule, where Epstein acted as a node for Ebola-related project proposals.

This included Epstein receiving a United Nations (U.N.) diplomat’s proposal for the development of a “Nexus Centre for peace and health” that would take “into account the serious impact of Ebola,” and a proposal by a group of scientists for a pre-symptomatic Ebola detection system using PCR testing.

The scientists behind the proposal — affiliated with a U.S. military biolab at Fort Detrick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health — asked Epstein to send the proposal to Gates and the Gates Foundation.

By October 2014, Epstein was warning Kathy Ruemmler, then White House counsel to Obama, of the political cost if Obama didn’t take action on Ebola. By 2015, Epstein was acting as an intermediary in efforts to convene global experts who would “discuss how we can most effectively address and prevent pandemics.”

5 minutes ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

This is a good article describing some of the wonderful work of Bill Gates and Jeff Epstein. He goes to explain citing sources and e-mails from the Epstein Files.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/epstein-pitched-jpmorgan-chase-plan-bill-gates-more-money-vaccines/

Quote:

According to Ji, the documents provide a roadmap for how a pandemic preparedness infrastructure was developed and how it helped make Event 201 possible.

“By the time Event 201 convened, the architecture … was no longer conceptual. It had been funded, structured, bonded, insured, staffed, and legally papered. What remained was the rehearsal,” Ji wrote.

September 2014 documents show that Gates disclosed his upcoming meeting with President Obama to Epstein, just as an adviser to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak sent Epstein an invitation to a private, off-the-record reception with Obama the following month.

Ji said the communications occurred during “the week Ebola was formally reclassified as a threat to international peace and security.” He said the timing is significant, as this “was the week the biosecurity state was born.”

According to Ji, these developments helped activate the infrastructure outlined in Project Molecule, where Epstein acted as a node for Ebola-related project proposals.

This included Epstein receiving a United Nations (U.N.) diplomat’s proposal for the development of a “Nexus Centre for peace and health” that would take “into account the serious impact of Ebola,” and a proposal by a group of scientists for a pre-symptomatic Ebola detection system using PCR testing.

The scientists behind the proposal — affiliated with a U.S. military biolab at Fort Detrick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health — asked Epstein to send the proposal to Gates and the Gates Foundation.

By October 2014, Epstein was warning Kathy Ruemmler, then White House counsel to Obama, of the political cost if Obama didn’t take action on Ebola. By 2015, Epstein was acting as an intermediary in efforts to convene global experts who would “discuss how we can most effectively address and prevent pandemics.”

Now if that doesn't deserve a medal for deflection.

Did you notice the whole article is about PREVENTING pandemics rather than creating them?

28 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Now if that doesn't deserve a medal for deflection.

Did you notice the whole article is about PREVENTING pandemics rather than creating them?

There is absolutely no deflection. it is all related. Preventing them? Are you serious? What I find interesting is the relationship between Gates, Epstein the military complex. It is interesting they usually are behind those wars and chaos and then bring in the miracle cure, the "vaccines". You can see the same pattern in Syria, Gaza, Afghanistan, etc. It makes you wonder what is in those "polio" vaccines. Maybe used to sterilize the children?

Quote:

Bill Gates, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has supported polio vaccination efforts in Syria. In 2016, the Gates-backed GAVI pledged $25 million for polio immunization in the country. Despite these efforts, the World Health Organization reported in 2017 that 58 children in Syria were paralyzed by a vaccine-derived form of the polio virus, raising concerns about the use of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) in conflict-affected regions.

21 minutes ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

There is absolutely no deflection. it is all related. Preventing them? Are you serious?

It's in your own post.

1 hour ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

Epstein was acting as an intermediary in efforts to convene global experts who would “discuss how we can most effectively address and prevent pandemics.”

23 minutes ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

Bill Gates, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has supported polio vaccination efforts in Syria. In 2016, the Gates-backed GAVI pledged $25 million for polio immunization in the country. Despite these efforts, the World Health Organization reported in 2017 that 58 children in Syria were paralyzed by a vaccine-derived form of the polio virus

58 out of how many HUNDRED THOUSANDS vaccinated?

And then this

Timeline & Scope: The paralyzing cases occurred between March 3 and September 21, 2017, with 84% of affected children having received fewer than three doses of the oral vaccine.

1 hour ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

Thanks AI we can sleep in peace. I will trust Fact Checks 100%. Yes, as during the "pandemic", trust the science.

Well, when you have your next health issue, please self-medicate so you don't waste the time of professionals you don't believe in.

4 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

The world should learn now the results of US' and Israel's warmaking.

The US is by far the biggest consumer of jet fuel. 40% of world demand.

Jet fuel prices have doubled in America since the Strait of Hormuz was closed. The major carriers - Delta, United and American - are shedding routes to less profitable sectors.

Trump shoots himself in the foot again. They should be calling him No-Toes.

3 hours ago, blaze master said:

A 50 to 80 percent drop in humans would be ideal.

You first

20 hours ago, bannork said:

A growing fuel shock triggered by the Iran war could soon ground flights around the world, an energy expert has warned — a prediction that stunned a CNN host live on air.

Appearing on CNN News Central, former US energy adviser Amos Hochstein said some airports could run out of jet fuel within a week as the closure of key shipping lanes strangles global energy flows. Host Kate Bolduan stopped him mid-interview to confirm the warning: “Full stop?” she asked. “Full stop,” Hochstein replied.

Hormuz blockade sends shock through global supply

The crisis began when Iran shut down the vital Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for joint US-Israeli military strikes.

Roughly a fifth of the world’s oil normally passes through the narrow shipping corridor. With the route effectively blocked, more than 1,000 ships are reportedly stranded in the Persian Gulf, triggering cascading disruptions across the energy market.

Fuel reserves have cushioned the immediate impact — but that buffer is rapidly eroding.

The domino effect hitting airlines

Jet fuel shortages could soon ripple through global aviation networks.

According to Hochstein, several airports are already restricting departures to preserve fuel supplies. If shipments remain blocked, some hubs could simply run dry in the coming days.

For travellers, the consequences may be immediate: fewer flights, soaring ticket prices and potential cancellations during the peak spring and summer travel season.

Shipping chokepoints deepen the crisis

The situation has worsened as Iran-aligned Houthi forces threaten vessels in another key maritime corridor, the Bab el‑Mandeb Strait linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

Together, the two disruptions have created a bottleneck for global shipping. Cargo vessels carrying oil, chemicals and consumer goods are taking longer routes — raising costs and slowing deliveries worldwide.

Every additional day of delay pushes prices higher.

Fuel shock spreads from Asia to the West

Asia felt the first impact because of its heavy reliance on Middle Eastern energy.

Now the shockwave is moving westward. In Europe, jet fuel prices have reportedly doubled within a month, while diesel costs are climbing across the United States.

The pressure is amplified by domestic vulnerabilities. A recent accident at a Valero Energy refinery in Texas temporarily cut refining capacity, reducing the margin for error in an already strained system.

The result is a fragile global supply chain — one accident, one blockade, or one delay away from a full-scale fuel crisis.

CNN host startled by expert's prediction about Iran war's impact on travel

Run out in weeks?

Don't think so. Maybe a few months, but not weeks. Definitely higher fares as the market will push prices up.

Currently the US's jet fuel level is approx. 44 million barrels (up from 41 million barrels earlier in March) .

Also the US is an exporter of jet fuel. Currently no issues in the US for local consumption and exports.

As for Europe the IEA just released 400 million barrels to help ease pricing. Europe still a few months of supply. Some smaller airports may have issues with supply as

Major airports and airlines get priority.