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A prolonged Hormuz disruption shifts inflation from crude oil into freight, refining, chemicals, fertilizer, and inventories. Oil prices may stabilize while industrial inflation persists.
The EPA AIM Act is cutting HFC refrigerant production to 15% of baseline by 2036. The quota squeeze is real, but the capex burden and rent extraction split sharply by scale — natural refrigerants bypass both the quota and the patent toll.