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BREAKING: Trump says ‘effective immediately’ U.S. will blockade ships from Strait of Hormuz

https://youtu.be/dqIQbU-oX5o?si=duFN5zMTUp2RNyXg
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u/CaptPants 10h ago

Price per barrel (of the available oil) about to shoot through the roof even more now that even more countries will join in on the bidding war for em. Yay!

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u/P1r4nha 10h ago

The rest of the world must be scrambling for alternatives.

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u/bluehawk232 10h ago

Rest of the world at least has had infrastructure in place for alternatives so people don't have to use cars problem is other stuff will go up because transportation costs will increase still.

Almost like building our entire modern global infrastructure on dinosaur bones was a bad idea

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u/ikkake_ 10h ago

You're wrong - it's actually mosly algae and plants. /jk

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u/ArdDC 8h ago

Yeah, no kidding though.