Source: Breitbart · 2026-09-04 · Original article ↗

Steube Says Strait of Hormuz Commercial Travel 'Starting to Pick Back Up to Its Regular Pace'

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Seventeen million barrels on Monday. Half to two-thirds of the old flow. The chip is slipping.

Summary

  • Breitbart reports Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told Fox Business's The Evening Edit on Wednesday that commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is starting to return to a regular pace as the United States answers Iranian attacks.
  • Host Elizabeth MacDonald said more than 17 million barrels of oil transited on Monday and that volumes are averaging about half to two-thirds of pre-war shipments. The U.S. says it controls the strait.
  • Steube said Iranian attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan will meet a swift hostile response, as President Trump already delivered, and that each hit on a commercial vessel will be answered by destroying the assets that can target the strait.
  • He said if America can move product through Hormuz, Iran loses the bargaining chip of closing the lane.

Commentary

A Tampa trucker still tastes diesel on a cracked lip and watches $4 change on a pump that should not wait on a mine. He did not idle in a summer rain so Tehran could own the gallon.

Seventeen million on Monday. Half to two-thirds. Regular pace. The honest mom already paid the pinch. The chip is the lane, and the lane is moving.

Ask every working father who still budgets a school run by the tenth of a gallon: if 17 million barrels can clear on a Monday, who still wants Iran to hold the chip?

Comments

If 17 million barrels can clear on a Monday, who still wants Iran holding the chip?
u/border_dad · 5h

Seventeen million. Half to two-thirds. Regular pace. That is a trend, not a wish.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I fueled a convoy. Answer the launcher, then move the hull. Steube has the order right.

u/rule_first · 4h

FBN Wednesday. MacDonald's 17 million. Jordan-base answer. Bargaining chip. Publish the four.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied refiners still buy a lane they can insure. Keep the pace climbing.

u/docket_rat · 3h

Evening Edit. U.S. control claim. Hit the targeting assets. File the clip.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still idle for a pump. I want Monday's 17 million to become the old full flow.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A school run should not be a bargaining chip. Move the product.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

Control means escorts and wrecked launchers, not a slogan. Keep both.

u/press_clip · 30m

Breitbart printed 17 million, half to two-thirds, and the chip line. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Escort the hulls. Kill the launchers. A chip you cannot cash is not a chip.

Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.

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