Sorry, couldn’t hear you over all the deafening silence from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden about how much they oppose this foreign policy and how different things would have been in this regard if either of them had become president.

I live on the other side of the world, but I bet you anything you like that my petrol prices will double too. It will cost twice as much to heat my home, and because my country is so big and so far away from everything, the cost of any goods I buy will increase significantly due to the additional price of the fuel required to get it to me.

I had no choice. I couldn't vote for that dickhead if I wanted to. America voted and I'm worse off for it.

Yes, because Russia and the US have been no trouble at all since they got the bomb.

What we need to do is stop using fossil fuels, and let the Middle East go back to being irrelevant.

It's okay, kids can build and work the refineries.

Why can't it be refined here?

The US has been a net exporter of refined petroleum since 2010.

It’s just not a good look to be earning a lot of money on wars. But the Norwegian government are using the extra cash to fund Ukraine, so they’re using it well.

Closing Hormuz would blockade the Saudis as well.

Right? US spends a metric ton of money on bases and basically running the middle east, they could at least throw in a nicer regime instead of some insane monarch dictators.

I think it was 5 casinos and a casino holding company? Brb...

Edit:
Bankruptcies were...
1991: Trump Taj Mahal
1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Hotel (not a casino, just a hotel.)
2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts. Which was a casino holding company. Not only did he bankrupt cannons he also bankrupted a company that syphons profits from casinos.

Apparently that’s good business? Haha

The US charges its people international prices and not based on local extraction costs.

Could make buyers look for other sources if they only block US oil.

Demand for his head, I doubt. They'll just call for a full invasion and taking of the strait and justify the strikes and invasion do to Iran closing it.

You sure about that? This is MAGA. They will fall in line and say "if Biden didn't fuck this up in the first place.. then...blah blah"

They are all Team players. They will bend the knee like before.

they’ll blame iran and then demand daddy donny fix it with more bombs. they lack the ability to see that trump is the entire cause of this nonsense

From what I understand, the US is now an oil producing country due to fracking so we won’t see results like the oil embargo of the 70s, just increases in prices. Increasing the price of oil will increase the profits to Republican donors. I do wonder what the products of the closure will look like.

If the gas price skyrockets they will demand Donald’s head

Maybe. Or maybe they'll just keep blaming Palestine protesters and other Woke Leftists for doing a domestic terrorism by talking shit about the president.

It took a long long while for the median Americans to come around to Bush being a POS. Conservatives only really turned on him after he left office.

I can easily see our domestic media egging on our paramilitary DHS to do more fascism against the immigrants responsible for inflation. And I can easily imagine a lot of Americans convinced they're who are to blame.

His supporters won't demand anything, even the ones a raise in gas prices most directly affects. But let them eat shit in any case.

If the gas price skyrockets

We're a net oil exporter these days, thanks to hydrofracking.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php

In 2020, the United States became a net exporter of petroleum for the first time since at least 1949.

If the gas price skyrockets, (a) if it becomes really serious, it's possible for the US to not export oil and (b) more US oil production will come online.

Loss of oil access was a potent lever against the US in the 1970s, but it isn't in 2025.

The reaction of the rest of Europe to Trump's attack would lead Iran to expect that the usual suspects in Europe would attack Iran either way, same as they did back when America invaded "WMD" Iraq.

Certainly were I am (Portugal, which by the way also sent troops to Iraq) there are already people from America and Israel-aligned far-right think-tanks being invited to news segments on public TV about the American attack, where they're complimenting Trump on his action, calling it a "massive victory to Netanyahu" and scaremongering against Iran with exactly the same kind of "arguments" as were used for Iraq (Iran has WMDs, Iran is developing missiles which can reach European cities and so on), so the Manufacturing Consensus machinery is already running.

How so?

Sounds like those militaries need some nukes dropped on them.

How about this? Stop fucking with other people’s shit. If Iran wants to protect itself, it has every right to do so. And that means closing the shipping lanes they ALLOW others to use.