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The haves and the have-nots of energy.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrina Banishore.

Almost 2,500 years ago, Thucydides, the historian in general from ancient Greece, famously wrote, the strong do what they can and the weak

suffer what they must. The quote is often used to refer to the grim reality in international

affairs that when push comes to shove, the vulnerable

suffer at the hands of the powerful. And as it was in the Peloponnesian War millennia ago,

it is true today in oil markets. The Iran War's chokehold on oil and gas supplies is laying

bare the haves and the have-nots in the global economy. Marketplaces, Samantha Fields, has more.

Maybe it's hoarding or protectionist or human nature.

Whatever you want to call it, some countries have plenty of oil right now, while others don't.

The disruption of oil and natural gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz is the biggest

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