Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

Your Gas Tank Is Full. That’s a Problem for OPEC+

Despite the chaos in the Middle East and beyond, the price of oil has plummeted. Has America hit peak petroleum?

September 6, 2024 at 9:51 PM UTC

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

What’s your octane?
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When was the last time you had full service at a gas station? If you live in New Jersey, it was probably yesterday. If you live anywhere else, you are probably scratching your head and searching your memory. But for me, it was last weekend on New York’s Long Island Expressway, and I found myself in a tizzy.