Colleagues south of France, Simon Constable, reporting on energy prices up dramatically in the last month of the Iran War, 50% for fuel and more or less for that for electricity.

In particular, diesel is important. Simon lives among the farmers of France, the strength of the national

rally all around Simon in the south of France. And there are also suggestions of possible

shortages with the shock from the war. Here Simon explains. And the energy prices have no reason

not to go higher the longer the war goes on.

It's all supply chain magic that's not now working or could stop working.

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Simon Constable.

Well, it's not very pleasing from a person living, but the good news is we're not being bombed at the moment

here in france which is is very good brent crude is was fetching a hundred and eight dollars per

barrel today which is up 50 percent in the last month not in the not not not in the last year or decade or whatever, but

it's up 50 percent. And that, that is huge. And if you look, look down on it and then say, well,

okay, well, how's that affect me? Well, for me and my wife, that affects a diesel price.

And to put this in perspective is people are looking at prices of diesel fuel in the US, and in some

places it's gone to over $5 per gallon. Here, we're at $7.70 per gallon, although it's sold in liters

and whatever we had this calculated before the show.

So that's pretty high and it's going to be a bit of a problem.

We also had one of the two filling stations for petrol, for gasoline, for diesel.

One of the two of them didn't have any diesel the other day.

The other one did, which is good, but I'm seeing shortages pile up,

and that is not a good situation because you don't want to be stranded on the road.

We've got electricity up 57% in a year.

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