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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.

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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 …

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- 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.
  
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