The workers protests in France have stalled production in the country's oil refineries, leading to concern about potential shortages in the supply of fuel
Actually it is not directly related with the supply; but I found it interesting to share. In this article it is stated that Nato supply line in order to prevent attack of Pakistani military.
This article is about the supply of electricity in Nigeria. As we all know, people in Nigeria is facing with a lot of problems such as poverty. Now, they also need to deal with electricity, becuase they do not have enough electricity anymore.
U.S. is having a supply shortage of sugar. The retailer prices have increased. More sugar import is planned to increase the supply and reduce the prices.
This article is about how consumers are paying more for fuel than they have before. The "Big Six" says that it is because of the "opacity" in the price system. This is due to tariffs. There is a "lack of competition" because consumers are unable to verify which prices are the lowest due to the tariffs. Consumers may be purchasing energy from the least efficient company and not know it due to the artificial prices due to tariffs. There are also two other problems. In a supply and demand graph with a tariff in place, one expects that when a tariff is set, the demand will decrease; this is not totally true for energy. Energy is a very price inelastic good and therefore the quantity demanded will not change by much when the price is artificially risen. The other problem with this scenario is that there are only six major energy producers, the "Big Six". This market is a very oligopolist market. There might be a decline in competition simply due to the "Big Six" working as a group to form an imperfect market.
This article is about the supply of gas, the demand for gas and the prices of gas. The article also mention the possible effects of the price changes in ethanol and crude on gas prices. According to the changes in ethanol and crude, the responsiveness of demand for gas can be observed.
This is a form of price discrimination as prices of oil are increasing even if the supply of oil is increasing. And the suppliers able to do this and still earn profit as oil is an inelastic good and a necessity. However the suppliers do not have to worry about reducing the price of oil as the demand for oil would not become elastic (at least for now and a long time).
This is not really an example of price discrimination as consumers are not separated in different groups and prices are not different for different consumers.