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Schrodinger's Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz is both open and closed until somebody observes it. We observe it, so you can keep not thinking about where petrol comes from.
Current observation: the strait is
OPEN
The waveform has collapsed in your favour. Roughly a fifth of the world's oil floats on.
2 of the last 10 headlines contain somebody threatening to change that. This is within normal parameters.
~20%
of the world's oil passes through it, roughly 20 million barrels a day (US EIA)
33 km
wide at its narrowest point, with two 3 km shipping lanes doing all the work
0
times it has actually been fully closed, despite a truly heroic number of announcements
The evidence
Latest field reports
- EXCLUSIVE: Iran ships some LPG, jet fuel despite US blockade, data showsReuters · 16 Oct
- FM Sybiha: Black Sea could become second Strait of Hormuz for global food securityUkrinform · 16 Oct
- LPG carrier, Shivalik, arrives at Mundra Port via the Strait of HormuzThe Lufkin Daily News · 16 Oct
- Strait of Hormuz: record number of ship attacks in one weekAround Prague · 16 Oct
- IRGC official calls Strait of Hormuz Iran’s first line of defenseAzerNews · 16 Oct
- Strait of Hormuz attacks reach record high in Octobersafety4sea · 16 Oct
- [COVER STORY] Wider Cheonghae mission may suck Korea into US war on Iran: expertThe Korea Times · 16 Oct
- BBC Verify: 12 ships attacked in the Strait of Hormuz in one week, a record since the conflict beganInformat.ro · 16 Oct
- Another Tanker Catches Fire in Eastern Strait of Hormuzتسنیم · 16 Oct
- Reported ship attacks near Strait of Hormuz hit record highBBC · 16 Oct