Energy

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Food

Not just gasoline: Rising costs from Iran conflict will impact food, plastics and electronics

The Strait of Hormuz is an artery through which oil, natural gas, petrochemicals and nitrogen fertilizers flow. Just about every consumer product will be more expensive with increased costs of diesel, gasoline, fertilizers, plastics and helium, all of which require oil products. How high prices go and what the impact will be on the economy will depend on how long the conflict continues, and its eventual outcome.

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Three mile island

Feds announces contracts for U.S.-sourced uranium

The incentive to build out new uranium production capacity in the U.S. will further promote the support of clean energy and decrease the United States' dependency on Russian uranium imports, which have historically been a significant source of low-enriched uranium.