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Across the region, there's long queues, gas stations.

You even have some temples, halting cremations.

Farmers can't get enough diesel to power their machinery.

It's really affecting people who, like the poorest, President Marcos of the Philippines.

He said we're victims of a war that's not our choosing.

And I think that probably does sum up how a lot of people feel.

Fuel rations, cash handouts and no aircon, how the Iran war is causing an energy

shock in Southeast Asia. From The Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy

Hoff. Well, I'm joined by Rebecca Ratcliffe, who's dialing in from Bangkok. Thanks so much

for dialing in, Rebecca. I know it's late where you are.

So you cover Southeast Asia, and I think from your reporting, it's clear that the war in the

Middle East is having an impact in countries there in a way that perhaps here in the

West we're not seeing it in quite the same way yet.

The International Energy Agency, the IEA, says that this is the biggest oil supply shock in history.

So from your reporting, what does that look like on the ground and what measures are people being asked to take?

Yeah, the impact is already very immediate and very visible here. Across the region,

there's long queues at gas stations, lots of gas stations with notices saying that they've run out

the supplies. In Lao at one point earlier this month, 40% of gas stations were closed. In Thailand,

likewise, long queues at gas stations, people queuing overnight.

And the effect, it's affecting lots of different industries and areas of life.

So bigger companies have warned about possible disruption to supplies or price increases.

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