Asian refinery orders for U.S. crude have plunged by 50% from September. The Iran war has made oil tanker voyages so inefficient that vessel availability has crumbled and freight costs have soared to record-highs, erasing the incentive for shipping crude oil from the U.S. Gulf Coast to Asia.The cost of shipping crude oil from the U.S. Gulf Coast to China soared to $80 million earlier this month. That’s ten times the tanker rates before the Iran war. U.S. crude oil and petroleum exports surged to a record high in the early weeks of the Middle East war. But the conflict broke the global tanker market and added a shipping crisis on top of the oil supply and fuel crises.The Iran war has reshuffled trade routes and patterns and tied up more tankers in inefficient and lengthy voyages.Ship-to-ship (STS) transfers in the Gulf of Oman are tying up supertankers for weeks waiting for the transfers outside the Strait, limiting the availability of very large crude carriers (VLCCs) for the other global key oil trade routes, such as the U.S. Gulf Coast to Asia.The Gulf of Oman shuttle fleet has expanded to about 80 VLCCs. However, the average round-voyage times have reached 23 days, more than double the optimal 9–10 days for a round trip from Basrah in Iraq to Sohar offshore Oman, according to Kpler, leaving the market short on vessels elsewhere.https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Record-Tanker-Rates-Cripple-US-Crude-Oil-Flows-to-Asia.html
>>544896312trump is a tard
>>544896500You ain't seen nothin' yet.
>yfw trump is going to get absolutely ass blasted in the midterms and instead of doing the right thing he's just going to double, triple and quaddruple down on his shabbos goy golem activities until a dem landslides in 2028 and undoes absolutely everything trump ever did + hunt down everyone who is even remotely pro-trump
>>544897319>>544897395boots on the ground by end of the year
>>544897512Can't wait for FPVs vids.What burger copes would be?
>>544896312Hey mutts, looks like you and your African brethren are in this together. All thanks to your orange overlord, lmao.
>>544897575hopefully our troops will be mostly shitskins
>>544897512is that even possible when all nearby military naval bases have been abandoned / utterly obliterated (like the 5th fleet HQ)? they're using diego garcia right now which is so far away it's like twice the distance from where i currently am vs the tip of italy. no way you can sustain major war operations with such a vast logistical chain. not to mention the region as a whole is thousands and thousands of kilometers away from the US mainland. such a land war would cost trillions, take 1+ year to prepare and this time around the US will not have dozens of NATO countries backing them up with logistics and tens of thousands of troops. and unlike in the past, the US cannot prepare for such a war at their leisure, with iranian missiles, drones and satellite capabilities going about.seems to me like the only option is to bomb iran into submission by knocking out energy and so on. trump might just be retarded enough to do it.
>>544897512Why are Americans so eager to send their kids to die in foreign deserts?
>>544898796We're not. Well, MAGA is. But they're traitors to the constitution and republic anyway.
>>544897707You don’t understand. Trump isn’t doing this for politics. He legit thinks that sucking Jew cock will guarantee him a spot in heaven.
>>544896312>The Gulf of Oman shuttle fleet has expanded to about 80 VLCCs. However, the average round-voyage times have reached 23 daysso 80 vessels, 23 days per vessel. How are they moving 20mpbd (10 vessels every day) again?
>>544899167I imagine they're using many other tankers as well. I don't believe it's as much oil as they claim, but it's a lot. It's also under constant fire and unsustainable.
>>544898796And whenever they do, nothing of value is lost.
>>544896312https://youtu.be/p9Y4YrwjPIo
