A fertilizer plant outside Lagos, Nigeria. Fertilizer shortages driven by the fighting in the Middle East, where crucial inputs are produced, can lead to poorer harvests and higher food prices around the world.
《加油站恐慌:能源危机与20世纪70年代美国政治转型》(Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and The Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s)一书的作者梅格·雅各布斯指出,在1973年和1974年的石油禁运之后,物价并未立即回落,而是在那十年的余下时间里一直处于高位。