Oil prices surge to $103! Are you paying for fuel, or the "heartache tax"?

The rise above $100 for oil is a bit like an ex suddenly becoming excellent—you don't want to pay attention, but it keeps showing up every day.
International oil prices hit $103, and who’s the first to panic? Not the Middle East, not Wall Street, but workers and Didi drivers. You think the price hike is for oil? No, it’s a “chain reaction” of living costs: transportation costs rise → prices go up → wallets shrink.
But the more exciting point in the market is this: oil prices rising are essentially risk premiums + supply expectation tensions. When geopolitical tensions tighten, oil prices start to “play the drama queen.” At this point, capital will do two things:
One, buy oil; two, conveniently go long on inflation trades.
The question is—when oil hits $103, is it the starting point or the end?
In the short term, sentiment-driven momentum is strong, but once the situation eases, oil prices might “gap up and then fall back.” In the long term, changes in energy structure are the real game-changer.
Summary in one sentence:
Oil isn’t expensive right now; it’s “emotionally expensive.”
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