Americans are feeling this, I don't have to tell you guys. If you have filled up a tank of gas, you are paying 80 to 90 cents more per gallon than before this war began. That's a sharp increase. It's painful. You feel it and it will impact your spending everywhere else. It's an economic hit.
Fuel at all TotalEnergies stations in mainland France, including on motorway service stations and in rural areas will be limited to 1.99 per litre for petrol and 2.09 per litre for diesel from Friday, March 13th, until the end of the month.
If the infrastructure is not taken out and the money is not taken away why should Iran come to the peace table. They are taunting us with $200 oil. They do not have the cards; our military must be unleashed. Time to do what we did to Hanoi—to get them to the table.
XOMO generates income by selling call options on ExxonMobil stock, collecting premiums weekly and passing most of that cash to shareholders. The trade-off: when ExxonMobil rises sharply, XOMO's upside is capped because the call options get exercised against it. The income is real but genuinely variable. Recent weekly payments have ranged from $0.05 to $0.19 per share, depending on how much premium the options market offered.
The market remains highly sensitive to developments in the Middle East, where elevated geopolitical tensions continue to expose energy infrastructure and shipping routes to significant risks. Supply conditions have already tightened, as production in parts of the region has been curtailed due to limited storage capacity and difficulties in exporting crude amid shipping constraints.
