You’re paying for the jet fuel shortage when you fill your car with gas | CNN Business

The global oil market is wildly complex, with thousands of interconnected parts all working seamlessly together to keep the world’s economy humming. Most of the time, no one notices.

Until it breaks.

It’s been two and a half months since the war with Iran ruptured the crude oil market, and the aftershocks are starting to show up in unexpected ways. Among the many quirks: A European jet fuel shortage – that Americans are paying for at the gas pump.

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Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation’s hope or hype? | BBC News

“This is the future of aviation,” Oskar Meijerink tells me in a café in Rotterdam airport.

His company, in partnership with the airport’s owners, is planning the world’s first commercial production of jet fuel made, in part, from carbon dioxide (CO2).

Based at the airport, it will work by capturing CO2, the gas which contributes to global warming, from the air.

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