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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Something like 20% of the world's oil is produced on the other side of Hormuz.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    To be fair, there's the Red Sea on the other side, that connects a lot of the oil-producing countries to the sea too.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you could magically teleport oil from one side of the country to the other for free, you might as well just teleport it straight to its buyer and not bother with ships at all. And Iraq and Kuwait, which are major oil producers you might remember from past hits like Gulf War 1 and Gulf War 2, don't even have another side of the country to send it to.

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