IEA chief says current oil and gas crisis worse than 1973, 1979, 2022 together

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) The current oil and gas crisis triggered by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is “more serious than the ones in 1973, 1979 and 2022 together,” Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), told Le Figaro newspaper. “The world has never experienced a disruption to energy supply of such magnitude,” he said in an interview with the French newspaper released in its Tuesday edition. – IEA chief says current oil and gas crisis worse than 1973, 1979, 2022 together