The ongoing war in Iran that is choking off the global supply of oil is now threatening to cause a global jet fuel crisis just as the summer travel season gets ready to begin, international energy experts said.
The executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) sounded the alarm on Thursday when he told the Associated Press that Europe has "maybe six weeks or so [of] jet fuel left."
Fatih Birol, the IEA executive director, told the AP that airlines around the globe could be facing "the largest energy crisis we have ever faced" if the war, which has put a stranglehold on shipments of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, drags on.