What’s Holding Back Oil Prices Now? | Matt Smith

Podcast: Market Insider · The Epoch Times

Opublikowano: 2026-07-20

The Strait of Hormuz has been severely disrupted for more than four months, and crude is still trading in the $80s. Meanwhile, diesel at the U.S. pump has passed $5 a gallon and has outpaced crude since the crisis began. If the world’s biggest oil choke point remains this constrained, why isn’t the oil price showing more of the strain? The market has adapted, but with fixes that were never built to last. The bill is already arriving somewhere other than the price of crude. Matt Smith directs commodity research at Kpler, a firm...