The factoid thrown around is that roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Since it closed, my local gas prices in one area of the US midwest have gone from $2.60 to now $4.10 presumably as reserves have been used up.
I could understand a 20~30% increase in price to correlate with the reduction in supply, but what are the economic factors that lead to what feels like such a disproportionate increase?
Not true.
Prices here in South America have not gone up.
The only reason prices would go up globally would be capitalism, if you trade it for profit.
Nobody should be allowed to profit from burning fossil fuels.