The U.S.-Israeli aggressive war against Iran has sent sulfuric acid prices soaring—they have more than doubled since the start of the war, depending on the part of the world—and created a shortage of this acid, the Wall Street Journal reports in a the May 9 article, “Iran War Puts the World’s Most Used Chemical In Short Supply.”
From fertilizer and diesel and gasoline prices, to pharmaceuticals, and now sulfuric acid, the essentials of food supply, transport, and industrial processes are being dismantled one by one, in a deliberate plan for controlled disintegration of the world economy by the British, who are planning it.
Sulfuric acid is used in many industrial processes, among them for producing phosphoric acid, which is essential for making phosphate fertilizers; in mining, it is used to leach copper oxide to produce copper that is used in electrical wiring, plumbing, and industrial machinery; it acts as a cleaning agent (pickling) to remove impurities, rust, and scale from steel surfaces; it is used in vulcanizing rubber to improve durability, and in pulp wood processing, which is used for paper and clothing production. As well, it is used for food, computer chips, and producing clean water at municipal water treatment plants. Though some people may have little appreciation of its pivotal role in an industrial economy, over 300 million tons of sulfuric acid are produced annually, which is three times more than the next most commonly used chemical.
Over 90% of the element sulfur is used as a feedstock to create sulfuric acid.
The Gulf region accounts for over 45% of global sulfur exports, most of which would normally go through the Strait of Hormuz, but which are largely blocked, sending prices sky high. At the same time, China, the world’s largest producer and a significant exporter of sulfur, starting May 1, in order to protect its civilian economy, significantly restricted sulfur exports.
