Javier Blas
@JavierBlas • 390,646 subscribers
Energy and commodities columnist at Bloomberg. Co-author of the 'The World for Sale' Any views expressed are my own. [email protected]
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VIDEO EXPLAINER: The most important map of the Third Gulf War — the oilfields, the Strait of Hormuz, and the bypass pipelines. Plus a look at how, two weeks into the war, Iran is still exporting lots of its oil, and most of it, via the strait. Bloomberg Opinion
Javier Blas1,068,004 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
VIDEO COLUMN 🎥: The war in Iran is squeezing airlines, but your European summer holiday flights ✈️ should still be fine. After an initial panic, the refining oil industry is making enough jet fuel ⛽️ to offset the loss of Middle East supply. Bloomberg Opinion
Javier Blas44,676 görüntüleme • 17 gün önce
The Houthis of Yemen have released a **propaganda** video of their attack (and sinking) of the bulk carrier ship 'Magic Seas’ on Sunday in the Red Sea. It's both very concerning and rather spectacular (they attached multiple explosives to her hull) #Houthis
Javier Blas238,848 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
![“… When the time is right, and it won't be that far away, when we'll use the US Navy to escort ships through the Straits of Hormuz […] … Fortunately , we have the world just massively well-supplied […] I’ll be a bump in the road…”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2029624794371551481/media/HCqqCv0WkAAfFWP.jpg)
![Do you remember all the (nonsense) about Greenland and rare earths? Well, now US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the whole thing was “way blown out of what was never going to be.” “There’s certainly far more attractive places to mine for rare earths [than in Greenland]”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2023906919463665742/amplify_video_thumb/2023906814643830784/img/oZBOx7IMJxCgkKXN.jpg)
Do you remember all the (nonsense) about Greenland and rare earths? Well, now US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the whole thing was “way blown out of what was never going to be.” “There’s certainly far more attractive places to mine for rare earths [than in Greenland]”
Javier Blas39,958 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
VIDEO COLUMN: The world has never used as much coal as it’s burning this year. In the age of the climate crisis, King Coal still reigns. Above all, in China, which accounts for >50% of global demand. #CoalTwitter #ClimateCrisis Bloomberg Opinion h/t Michael Johnson
Javier Blas127,434 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
VIDEO COLUMN: The (real) meaning of BP: 1909 Brits in Persia 1944 Backing Pluto 1953 Behind the Putsch 1954 British Petroleum 1987 Big Privatisation 1998 Big Purchase 2001 Beyond Petroleum 2010 Big Problem 2020 Beyond Profits 2024 Back to Petroleum 2025 Being Peddled #OOTT
Javier Blas36,169 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
VIDEO COLUMN : For a few days, I feared the worst: a Christmas without Ibérico ham (due to an outbreak of swine flu in Spain). Sure, my panic was a first-world problem. But it’s too a timely warning about the next pandemic -- one that will hit our meat supply. @Opinion
Javier Blas24,404 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce