By PNW Staff
September 18, 2026
Americans may look at fuel protests in Syria, shortages in Indonesia or blackouts in Bangladesh and assume this is someone else’s crisis. But energy markets don’t respect national borders. The same global system that is producing shortages and unrest overseas is already pushing American fuel prices into territory that would have seemed extraordinary just months ago.
The question is no longer whether America will feel the global fuel crisis.
It already is.