Mastodawn

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.

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Tubemeister Mar 12

@Catvalente Big "it works on my laptop" vibe.

Sure, one set of half a dozen barrels in the back of a pickup will likely work just fine.

Scaling up is always a bastard...

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Peter Brown Mar 12

@Tubemeister @Catvalente I’m still trying to work out how many hundreds of trucks would be needed for every single oil tanker. And oil is so relatively cheap that would cost more to move it than to sell it.
And let’s not even start on the costs of building a brand-new tanker terminal at each end of the truck route

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Jonathan McKeown Mar 12

@peterbrown @Tubemeister @Catvalente quick google suggests VLCC, the largest tankers, carry around two million barrels. A truck carries about 200. Even assuming half that tanker capacity, you need 5000 trucks per tanker. Each one is going to take 15–30 minutes to load and VLCC have four offload pumps. Taking the 30-min figure to allow for truck handling, it's going to take around a month to offload each tanker, of which there are around 20 a day.

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Jonathan McKeown

@peterbrown @Tubemeister @Catvalente [edited for a factor-of-ten error] Also, if you park those tanker trucks in a grid with a quarter-width and quarter-length separation, you need a parking lot the size of Little Rock AR, or Durham NC. And at a truck-length separation on the route from Abu Dhabi to Muscat, they'd cover half the distance.