Akshat Rathi

Past fossil-fuel price spikes left import-dependent countries with two options: pay up or cut fuel use. Now there is an alternative in solar and batteries.

I looked at recent examples in Europe, Pakistan, Cuba to glean what might happen with the war on Iran.

🎁🔗 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/iran-war-could-push-countries-to-adopt-more-solar-and-batteries?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjcxNzMwMCwiZXhwIjoxNzczMzIyMTAwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQkZHRzBLR1pBTE8wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.-BZHO9K9pWnr5XP_2gf-QMFFMfcerHCaANZDOrpuTJE

We're living in the timeline when hundreds of millions of years of dead matter was compressed by vast amount of rocks which were pushed by tectonic plates to create this concentration of oil and gas in less than 5% of the global land mass which humans now may burn away in less than 500 years.