Catherynne M. ValenteMar 12

I love how random X users are like "Surely I have the solution no one else on this planet has thought of! I, Rando, have done it!"

They think just like their idol. Yes no one's ever considered getting around the Strait of Hormuz in the history of being a dick in the Middle East.

Show threadjmjMar 12
@Catvalente I’d love to see the math on how many lanes of back to back trucks it would take 😉 and how much diesel they would consume. Not to mention what percentage of the existing world wide truck fleet would need to be moved there. Calling minutephysics…
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@Jmj @Catvalente I did some quick napkin math just to get a sense of the scale of the numbers involved. A large oil tanker holds about 20 million gallons, a tanker truck holds 8 thousand gallons. That's 2500 trucks for each ship. The road from Abu Dhabi to Muscat is about 500km. Imagine a truck every 200 meters (not an enormous gap at highway speed), then remember that this is all just *a single ship's* worth of oil
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