A tanker turned around in the Atlantic last week. Here's what that costs you.
Your gas bill just went up. The reason is sitting in the Persian Gulf. | Ras Laffan is a city-sized industrial complex on the coast of Qatar. Most Americans have never heard of it. It supplies one-fifth of all the liquefied natural gas on earth. Iranian missiles hit it last week. It is offline. | I can't stop thinking about this. | Here's what worries me. The damage in Qatar is already moving money out of your pocket. Not someday. Now. | When Ras Laffan went dark, buyers in Japan and South Korea started paying almost anything to secure supply. Gas tankers that left Texas and Louisiana headed for Europe turned around in the middle of the Atlantic. They went east. The math was simple for the companies running them. Asia pays more. Asia wins. | Every tanker that turns around is gas that does not come back to the American market. Less supply at home means higher prices at home. That is not a theory. That is how commodities work. | Lithium's Problem Just Became Someone Else's Goldmine | | Lithium prices have doubled since mid-2025. The go-to energy storage solution for companies, that equals rising costs eating into their margins and competitiveness. | Enter Qnetic. Instead of lithium, they invented a breakthrough energy storage system that runs on motion. By spinning a rotor at 12,000 RPM, they deliver a battery that runs like-new for 30 years and costs 2X less over its lifetime. No chemical wear-out, replacement cycles, or supply chain volatility like lithium. | Eight major energy players have lined up for that edge, already committing $110M+ to Qnetic in letters of intent. They even earned backing from the world's #1 climate tech investor, SOSV. | And with the global energy storage market projected to exceed $3T by 2030, demand isn't slowing down. Claim your early-stage stake before Qnetic goes from prototype to 3,500 deployments worldwide. | | I don't think most people realize the export terminals in Texas and Louisiana are the hinge. They are the door between your furnace and the global market. When global prices spike, that door swings open wider. More gas leaves. What stays behind costs more. | The EIA, that is the federal agency that tracks energy already said U.S. gas prices would climb more than 30% by 2027. They said that before the war. Before the missiles. Before Ras Laffan went quiet. That forecast is now almost certainly too low. | I get it. A damaged plant in Qatar feels far away. A strait you have never heard of feels irrelevant. But your electricity bill is already up 13% this year. That is not politics. That is not inflation noise. That is a specific chain of events that runs from a port on the Persian Gulf to the meter on the side of your house. | Nobody knows how long Ras Laffan stays down. Nobody knows if the Strait of Hormuz stays open. I am not going to pretend otherwise. What I do know is that the mechanism is real and it is running right now. | Here is the number I keep coming back to. One-fifth. One-fifth of the world's LNG came from that one complex in Qatar. Not one-fifth of Qatar's supply. One-fifth of the entire planet's. When something that size goes offline, the whole system lurches. There is no quiet workaround. There is no spare. | I talked to a utility analyst this week who said something that has stayed with me. He said most Americans think their gas bill is local. They think it is about their state, their winter, their utility company. He said that stopped being true the day the first export terminal opened. The day we started selling American gas to the world, our gas became part of the world price. And the world price just got a lot more complicated. | Ras Laffan. A Texas terminal. A tanker turning around somewhere in the Atlantic. Three things almost nobody is connecting. All of them connected. | Tonight, somewhere in Ohio or Georgia or Minnesota, someone is opening a utility bill and wondering why it went up again. The answer is not their thermostat. The answer is 6,000 miles away, and it is burning. | More on this tomorrow. | — Lauren
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