Comment on Couldn't ships just go elsewhere than the Strait of Hormuz?

• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Welcome to Lemmy

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You seem to have no idea how much oil is shipped every day.

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Airplanes are very time efficient but not very fuel efficient. A modern 737 cargo plane holds about 52,000 lbs of cargo. To transport 3 million barrels of oil by plane would take about 20,000 flights daily and there are only about 13,000 737s on the planet. So ignoring the astronomical cost it would take making the process impossible to profit from, you’d have to commandeer the world’s supply of planes to do so. Also I’m almost certain that the entire middle east couldn’t handle 20,000 fully loaded cargo flights every day. It’s simply too much for their airports to handle, even if humans stopped flying

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