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Honestly, every "solution" I’ve seen to the Strait of Hormuz tries to sidestep the core problem: geography. Unless someone can rewrite maritime law or move Iran, it’s always going to be a pressure point.

Exactly right on this. And the part nobody's talking about is that over 20% of the world’s oil passes through there. Any disruption spikes global prices fast, not just regional instability.

Honestly, every time someone floats a “solution” for Hormuz, it ignores how reliant global shipping is on that bottleneck. Even with pipelines, almost 20% of world oil goes through there. There’s no easy workaround.

Every proposal I’ve seen about bypassing the Strait just runs into geography and cost. Pipelines only cover so much volume, and alternative shipping routes are way longer. Hard to see a real fix without major tradeoffs.

Honestly, not enough people are talking about how even a partial bypass—like through the UAE's Habshan-Fujairah pipeline—could change the whole calculus if things get dicey. It's not all doom if the strait’s blocked.

Have you ever had to deal with a sun or wind spill ? They cover huge expanses of the earth and are practically impossible to "clean up" Just imagine the entire middle east covered in sun and wind and no modern technology to contain/dispose it ! What are you thinking ? (This is sarcasm)

Thank you for saying this. The whole “solution” convo skips over the millions who depend on oil shipping for basic survival—like, what happens to families if that gets disrupted?

Cool, but any “solution” that doesn’t factor in the millions who depend on that route for food, medicine, and energy isn’t really a solution. The human cost here is wild and never gets top billing.

Glad you brought this up. About 21 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait daily—any disruption hits global markets hard, but it’s regular folks facing fuel price spikes and shortages.

Love how every “solution” always skips over the part where millions of people in the Gulf rely on food and medicine imports through that strait. Block it and watch prices skyrocket for regular families.

Thanks for bringing this up. A third of the world’s LNG and 20% of its oil pass through there—any disruption and millions could lose access to affordable energy. The stakes go way beyond shipping routes.

Actually, a 1,400 km pipeline across Saudi Arabia between Bahrain and Jedda would allow them to choose between the Red Sea and the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz so they could use whichever is best.

Very interesting suggestion but I suspect the infrastructure to do so (roads or rail + appropriate vehicles) don't exist + With the transition away from fossil fuels its probably too late to think about putting them in place now By the time they're ready, at immense expense, the need's gone... 🤞

Honestly this is it. We need to get off oil. We've had since the 70's oil crisis to have a gentle long term weening, but we wasted it. Now's the chance to use the shock to force a reduction in oil use. No more oil for power, no more jumbo trucks and SUV's being the norm.

It'll keep happening as long as the US needs to prop up the dollar with oil trading. All of the above (and Iraq, Syria and Libya if you want to go back a quarter century or so) were, or were threatening to, sell oil direct to Russia or China for Rubles or Yuan. It is not a coincidence.

Turns out when you trash allies long enough, they stop showing up for you.🤦🏿‍♂️

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After years of insulting allies, Trump's begging Canada to bail him out in Strait of Hormuz. Canada’s answer: No—go kick rocks! “Canada's not participating in the offensive operations of Israel & U.S. And will not. Ever.” Turns out when you trash allies long enough, they stop showing up for you.🤦🏿‍♂️

You'd need a truck each second to do this. So first orderen 10k tanker truck. Then build infrastructur. Then a loading system and unlosding the other end. So basicly no.

Yeah, build a massive supertanker ship canal at massive expense and which itself could become a target, rather than not starting illegal pointless wars & just using the massive watercourse we were already using, before this bloody mayhem.

1. That is 5000 truck loads 2. They would be more at risk sitting in a port that would need fuel tanks to off load the ships and load the trucks