During an intervention on April 14 at Digi24, Eugenia Gusilov detailed what a worst-case scenario would look like amid the ongoing crisis. This situation extends far beyond fuels, threatening a wide range of refined products where shortages could emerge, from plastics to bitumen, asphalt, and helium used in semiconductor manufacturing.

Why is this moment so dangerous? Because the current confrontation in the Middle East is a geopolitical Molotov cocktail. It is highly explosive, involving two radical camps that, if left unresolved, will affect everyone in unimaginable ways. As Fatih Birol from the IEA stated, no country is immune to this problem.