Oil is not just another commodity. It is the fuel behind shipping lanes, aviation networks, plastics, fertilisers, trucking fleets, petrochemicals, and large parts of modern warfare. That alone would make it important. But oil also has another role: it is one of the few raw materials capable of shaking the entire global economy when supply is threatened. A disruption in wheat matters. A disruption in copper matters. A disruption in oil can ripple through transport, inflation,