The Real Threat From The Iran War Hits Farmers, Not Fuel Pumps
Regional stability hinges on credible deterrence and strategic partnerships with key allies.
Mainstream coverage of the Iran war keeps defaulting to the same old dashboard: gas prices, cable panels, and a quick blame game. The Epoch Times piece is right to widen the lens. The quieter story is that a distant chokepoint can show up later as a higher grocery bill, and the press often treats that lag as if it makes the problem less real.
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The Real Threat From The Iran War Hits Farmers, Not Fuel Pumps Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Prices for retail diesel and gas have each risen by over a third ($1.30+ and $1.00 per gallon, respectively) since the launch of Epic Fury .
Americans learned in the 1970s that Middle East conflict means energy pain, and that lesson has been reinforced through every subsequent Gulf crisis. This time, however, the more consequential threat to American household budgets is not the fuel pump .
It is quietly moving through the global fertilizer supply chain, and it will impact hundreds of millions of Americans who depend on the food that comes out of the ground each fall. Oil tankers and high speed crafts sit anchored at Muscat Anchorage near the Strait of Hormuz, i...
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Mainstream coverage of the Iran war keeps defaulting to the same old dashboard: gas prices, cable panels, and a quick blame game. The Epoch Times piece is right to widen the lens. The quieter story is that a distant chokepoint can show up later as a higher grocery bill, and the press often treats that lag as if it makes the problem less real.
What’s missing is the conservative concern about strategic dependence. When a third of globally traded urea and a quarter of ammonia move through Hormuz, that is not “globalization.” That is a single point of failure for the inputs that turn soil into food. Farmers who did not lock in fertilizer are not asking for sympathy, they are confronting a math problem Washington helped create.
The answer starts with national security and supply chain resilience: expand domestic fertilizer capacity, clear permitting, and stop tolerating trade distortions that reward foreign concentration. Public trust erodes when elites act surprised by risks they ignored for decades.
At stake is food security. A country that can feed itself should not gamble that reality on one narrow strait in a war zone.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.