Jamie Dimon says Ukraine war shows we still need cheap, secure energy from oil and gas

One key lesson of the previous 12 months is that the world isn’t prepared to maneuver away from oil and gasoline because the dominant supply of gasoline, in keeping with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

The financial institution chief stated on CNBC’s “Squawk Field” on Tuesday that the continuing struggle in Europe highlighted that fossil fuels are nonetheless a key part of the worldwide economic system and would stay so for the foreseeable future.

“If the lesson was realized from Ukraine, we’d like low cost, dependable, secure, safe power, of which 80% comes from oil and gasoline. And that quantity’s going to be very excessive for 10 or 20 years,” Dimon stated.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this 12 months despatched commodity costs hovering, together with oil and pure gasoline. U.S. oil benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude traded above $100 per barrel for a lot of the spring and summer season, although it has since eased again towards pre-war ranges.

The rising worth of pure gasoline has been a selected ache level in Europe, which beforehand relied on closely on Russian gasoline for dwelling heating.

Dimon stated that world leaders whereas pursuing renewable options must give attention to an “all the above” power technique to take care of gasoline for economies and scale back carbon emissions, not neglecting oil and gasoline manufacturing within the close to time period.

“Increased oil and gasoline costs are resulting in extra CO2. Having it cheaper has the advantage of lowering CO2, as a result of all that is occurring world wide is that poorer nations and richer nations are turning again on their coal vegetation,” Dimon stated.

The JPMorgan chief had beforehand declined a pledge to cease doing enterprise with fossil fuels, saying in a Congressional listening to that the transfer can be a “street to hell for America.”