Because the infrastructure in this region is a joke, while oligarchs suck trillions out of the ground to distribute to princes, no one wanted to invest in an alternative pipeline to the Red Sea. Seemed like a city for Douchebags was a better idea. Abu douchebag.
Comment on Couldn't ships just go elsewhere than the Strait of Hormuz?
phr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
a lot of oil comes from the persian gulf. that is hard to get out otherwise. saudi arabia has a pipeline to their westcoast, but that wouldn’t meetvthe demand.
the strait of hormuz is a major choke point in oil trade. unfortunately oil is stil a key ressource for everything. …
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
phr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
well redundancies are first of all expensive. plus there are already alternate ways of distribution. these are just insufficient for a naval blockade. the capacity of pumping it up and then putting it on a ship quasi-on-site is always gonna be magnitudes bigger and cheaper, than building pipelines. so …
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
well redundancies are first of all expensive.
oh no, poor King Al Saud. They literally piss away trillions from oil revenues. While there is zero infrastructure to the west.
ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 6 days ago
helium, fertilizer and some stuff for making pcbs (yes your motherboards gonna get expensive)
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 6 days ago
LNG too.