{"id":369141,"date":"2026-04-01T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:44:12","slug":"malaysian-minister-warns-of-very-very-serious-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369141\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian minister warns of \u2018very, very serious\u2019 energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian government has entered \u201ccrisis mode\u201d in response to the ongoing global <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/energy?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">energy supply<\/a> disruption, its transport minister has warned.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is not a laughing or joking matter. It is a very, very serious matter,\u201d Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday, as quoted by the New Straits Times newspaper. \u201cFor the past month, energy costs have risen by more than 100 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to news website Free Malaysia Today, Loke said: \u201cEven though at this moment our lights are still on and petrol stations are operating normally without supply concerns, this is something Malaysians cannot take lightly because the impact is felt worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Global fuel shortages have been brought on by Iran\u2019s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US-Israeli strikes<\/a> that began on February 28.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While Malaysians had not noticed any changes yet, Loke said that \u201cwe cannot take things for granted, because sooner or later, we will feel the impact\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said that although <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/malaysia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Malaysia<\/a> produced its own oil, it was still dependent on global markets and external supply chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Malaysian government has entered \u201ccrisis mode\u201d in response to the ongoing global energy supply disruption, its transport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38979,114,25098,184,161309,49665,177725,85,87,46,12437,88137,175338,2593,114994,1348,18324],"class_list":["post-369141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-anwar-ibrahim","tag-business","tag-cambodia","tag-economy","tag-energy-crisis","tag-energy-security","tag-ferdinand-marcos-jnr","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-malaysia","tag-malaysians","tag-petronas","tag-philippines","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-thailand","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}