The prolonged Hormuz crisis may be doing more than temporarily suppressing oil consumption. DNV warns that sustained high prices could accelerate electric vehicle adoption and produce permanent oil demand destruction — much as the oil shocks of the 1970s permanently reshaped global energy consumption.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has pitched the West Coast pipeline as a nation-building project. Professor Amy Janzwood argues it is something else entirely: a high-stakes political gamble that shifts enormous financial risk onto taxpayers while betting that global demand for Alberta bitumen will remain strong well into the 2030s. Before Canadians commit tens of billions of dollars, she argues, Ottawa must present a credible business case.

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