Macroeconomics 1st Mar '22 Historical Energy Crises A basket of energy commodities – seaborne thermal coal, global gas, European electricity and US gasoline – has risen by a weighted average of 4x since 2018-20 levels. This ranks as one of the top three worst price rises in history. Source. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)