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War, weather and outages may still send gas prices soaring
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Alternatives to Gulf supplies are scare

An LNG crunch is good news for the world’s dirtiest fuel

A hypothetical third Gulf war closes the Strait of Hormuz, stranding a fifth of global oil and gas output and driving energy…

And why its troubles may not be over yet

As trouble mounts in the Gulf and the Red Sea, fears are rising once again