Mohammad Mustaqeem, a 54-year-old food vendor in Delhi, has stopped using cooking gas altogether. “Now that there is no gas, I am cooking with coal,” he says, describing a shift he never expected to make after years of relying on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders.
The escalating war in the Middle East is forcing many countries into difficult energy trade-offs as they decide whether to curb consumption or bear rising costs amid tightening supplies.
