• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    7 days ago

    They’re charging 1 dollar per barrel. You’re not going to notice a 1% charge from Iran amidst a 400% increase due to speculation and reduced/unstable supply.

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          7 days ago

          I appreciate you confirming my comment ;)

          they were charging $1/barrel, but are now charging $?/barrel or whatever you’re transiting through the strait (plus a ‘security charge’), and that depends on who, and where you’re from (definitely not an ‘enemy state’!). And that’s even if you’re allowed through at all!

          Thanks, Trump!

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              the worst part of all of this is that, before Trump’s first term, we had a far better deal with Iran, but Trump shredded it because he hated that a black guy, Obama, did better than he could. So, he tore it up, and it took him 11 years to get a super-shitty deal that basically gives Iran everything it could ever want:

              • total control over the Strait of Hormuz forever (which it never had before)
              • the ability to charge tolls
              • to absolute fear of the entire world
              • no need for nukes, since it can squeeze the balls of the world by closing the “Strait of Iran” whenever it wants
              • a ceasefire from Israel, which only happened because the USA smacked Netanyahu

              Trump is an idiot, and the US ate shit to give Trump a “win” so he could look better to his racist base