Mangling Meaning, # 36

Dr Faustus has submitted this snapshot from a BBC report which has since been much (and tacitly) rewritten. (The original text is reproduced verbatim here and elsewhere online.) In the second paragraph here, further comments from an expert previously quoted are reported very badly, and the punctuation seems to have been inserted at random:

Link: BBC News, ‘How low can the oil price go – and what is the impact?’

He adds that a great level of unrest might add a geopolitical unrest – and consequent worries about supplies – might push prices higher. But not by much, he says.