u/border_dad
· 5h
Escorts are policy. A strait left to the IRGC is a grocery tax with a flag.
U.S. military assisted transporting 660 million barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz: CENTCOM
CENTCOM just walked 660 million barrels through a blockaded strait. The pump still remembers the old 20 million a day.
Summary
- Just the News reports U.S. military assistance has moved more than 660 million barrels of crude through the Strait of Hormuz since early May.
- Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins of CENTCOM told CNBC about 1,300 vessels used that escort since the corridor opened.
- CENTCOM said at the end of July it had already moved 1,000 vessels and 500 million barrels, meaning 160 million more barrels crossed in the last three weeks.
- The flow still sits below the 20 million barrels a day that moved through the strait before the Iran war, so the grocery aisle is still paying for the gap.
Commentary
A driver in Tulsa still fills a dented Silverado before dawn and watches the gallon click like a second rent. He does not convoy a tanker. He convoys a lunch pail and a kid who needs the heater in January.
That is the gap. Sailors ride a hot deck so the rack can breathe. Tehran still treats the strait like a toll booth. Six hundred sixty million barrels is not a vibe. It is a Navy doing the job NGOs called impossible.
Look every working father at a $4 pump in the eye and answer this: if the corridor can move 160 million barrels in three weeks, who decided the last six months of pain were a moral achievement?
Comments
Does a 660-million-barrel escort prove the Hormuz corridor is real policy?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I crewed a tin can so a tanker could pass. Keep the corridor. Keep the count public.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Freedom of navigation is a statute with hulls. 1,300 vessels is the exhibit.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allies who buy the barrel should thank the Navy, not lecture the escort.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch the grant shops call a tanker lane 'escalation.' They never paid for diesel.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I buy regular at 5 a.m. 20 million a day used to be boring. Make it boring again.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
School drop-off is a fuel bill. 160 million extra barrels in three weeks is a Tuesday that might cost less.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Iran still has a missile. The corridor still has a destroyer. Do not trade the second for a seminar.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Just the News printed 660 million, 1,300 hulls, and the old 20 million. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
More escorts. More barrels. Same CENTCOM clock every week until the pump forgets the war.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
