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By Ella Nilsen, Amy O’Kruk, Samuel Hart, CNN

(CNN) — The current war in the Middle East has sent the price of oil spiking — and with it, US gas prices.

Crude prices leapt over $100 per barrel on Monday. In the US, the average gas price was $3.48, up 50 cents since the US entered war with Iran.

The current energy crisis underscores an important fact: US gas prices are inseparable from the global oil market. And even though the US is the biggest exporter of oil globally, it can’t make up for the standstill of oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, plus Middle East oil stalwarts Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates starting to reduce their production.

While the shale revolution — with new fracking methods extracting more oil from Texas, New Mexico and North Dakota — has pushed the US to become the biggest oil producer in the world, this country has learned the hard way that not all oil is the same. And the US consumes a different kind of oil than we produce.

Oil falls on a spectrum from light to heavy, depending on how much sulfur it contains. The stuff the US extracts from the ground via fracking is an expensive, light crude oil. It made up most of what the US exported around the world in 2025: 3.9 million barrels per day.

Oil experts call it “the champagne of crudes.”

But it’s different from the kind of oil that has powered cars and industry in the US for decades. America was built on a thick, gunky crude that comes from other countries including Canada, Saudi Arabia and Central and South American nations.

“Some crudes are like coffee grounds — they’re gunky, awful, viscous, dirty. Some crudes are like champagne, light and un-sulfurous,” Bob McNally, president of consulting firm Rapidan Energy Group, told CNN in an interview last year.

The US pumps a lot of home-grown champagne out of the ground; around 80% of the oil produced here is light crude, according to the Energy Information Administration.

“It’s much lighter and sweeter,” said Hugh Daigle, an associate professor at the University of Texas Austin and an oil expert. “It’s less viscous.”

Meanwhile, the US uses a lot of “coffee-ground” oil. Last year, we imported around 6.2 million barrels of crude oil a day from others — most of it either heavy- or medium-density. By far the biggest source of US oil imports is its northern neighbor, Canada, which sent around 3.9 million barrels of crude oil per day to America in 2025.

But even though the US gets most of its oil from North American neighbors Canada and Mexico, it’s not immune from the energy disruptions in the Middle East.

For one thing, Saudia Arabia is the third largest oil exporter to the US, sending around 270,000 barrels of oil per day, according to EIA data.

But more importantly, the oil market is a global system.

“Oil is globally priced, and we all ride the same price rollercoaster,” McNally said in a recent interview. “The reality of the global oil market is a supply disruption anywhere leads to a price shock at the pump everywhere — including the US.”

The prices for different grades of crude oil are set in a global market. Even though most of the oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz goes to Asia, the US is far from insulated.

US energy infrastructure can also be impacted. Many US refineries —some of which have been around since the 1930s or earlier — were built decades b

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Por César López, CNN en Español

La fecha FIFA de finales de marzo tendrá un ingrediente adicional de cara al Mundial 2026. Allí se definirán los seis últimos cupos en los partidos de repechaje, dejando el panorama completo de los grupos en la cita de Canadá, Estados Unidos y México.

Bolivia buscará ser el séptimo representante de la Conmebol en sumarse a la Copa del Mundo, y para ello el director técnico Óscar Villegas ya presentó la lista de convocados para el primer encuentro, previsto para el 26 de marzo frente a Suriname, en el estadio mundialista de Monterrey.

El ganador de este partido deberá medirse a Iraq en la misma sede, y quien salga vencedor se clasificará al Grupo I, junto a Francia, Senegal y Noruega.

En la lista de 28 convocados, Villegas sorprendió con la inclusión del paraguayo naturalizado boliviano Juan Godoy y la ausencia del goleador Marcelo Moreno Martins, por quien muchos aclaman para regresar al seleccionado boliviano de cara al Mundial. Martins se había retirado, pero recientemente había anunciado su regreso a Oriente Petrolero, del fútbol de Bolivia, con la ilusión de ser convocado para el repechaje.

Arqueros: Carlos Lampe (Bolívar de Bolivia), Guillermo Viscarra (Alianza Lima de Perú), Gerónimo Govea (Wanderers de Uruguay).

Defensores: Diego Medina (CSKA 1948 de Bulgaria), Yomar Rocha (Akron Tolyatti de Rusia), Lucas Macazaga (Leganés de España), Roberto Fernández (Akron Tolyatti de Rusia), Dieguito Rodríguez (Always Ready de Bolivia), Luis Haquín (Al-Tai de Arabia Saudita), Richet Gómez (Always Ready de Bolivia), Marcelo Torrez (Santos de Brasil), Efraín Morales (CF Montréal de la MLS), Diego Arroyo (Shakhtar Donetsk de Ucrania), Leonardo Zabala (Cancún FC de México).

Mediocampistas: Ervin Vaca (Bolívar de Bolivia), Héctor Cuéllar (Always Ready de Bolivia), Robson Matheus (Bolívar de Bolivia), Moisés Villarroel (Blooming de Bolivia), Gabriel Villamil (Liga de Quito de Ecuador), Ramiro Vaca (Wydad Casablanca de Marruecos), Carlos Melgar (Bolívar de Boli).

Delanteros: Víctor Abrego (The Strongest de Bolivia), Miguel Terceros (Santos de Brasil), Jesús Maraude (Always Ready de Bolivia), Fernando Nava (Always Ready de Bolivia), Moisés Paniagua (Wydad Casablanca de Marruecos), Enzo Monteiro (FK Auda de Letonia) y Juan Godoy (Always Ready de Bolivia).

En la misma llave del repechaje de Bolivia se encuentra el seleccionado de Iraq, que, gracias a su mejor clasificación en el ranking de la FIFA, espera en la final al ganador entre Bolivia y Suriname.

Sin embargo, el entrenador iraquí Graham Arnold le pidió apoyo a la FIFA por las dificultades que afronta su selección de cara al repechaje, debido al conflicto en Medio Oriente.

Iraq busca clasificarse al Mundial después de cuatro décadas de ausencia, pero la guerra de Estados Unidos e Israel contra Irán ha desatado el caos en la región, y como el propio entrenador aseguró en una entrevista a CNN World Sport, necesita el apoyo de la FIFA, ya que no considera justo para ellos la falta de preparación.

“Creo que la FIFA necesita tomar una decisión rápida sobre esto porque es un poco injusto en este momento, con todo lo que tendríamos que pasar. Si Suriname aún puede jugar contra Bolivia y nosotros no podemos llegar, podríamos jugar contra el ganador justo antes del Mun