The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait?
By Captain John Konrad (Opinion) – The Strait of Hormuz is twenty-one miles wide. Two shipping channels, each two miles across, separated by a two-mile buffer. There is no alternative....
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TLDR
There is a big play going on. Control petroleum and control the world.
Personal comment. Petroleum is the only resource that really matters. It is far more important than gold, silver, coal, wind energy, or solar energy.
Modern civilization is built upon the management and utilization of energy. For more than a century, the source of that energy has been oil, with nuke, solar, etc. being bit players. The FUTURE is Fusion. TMTG just bought a company who has the best fusion tech available for commercialization. The geopolitics and domestic politics of oil is 'in transition'. Buckle in. It's gonna be a wild ride....
I got some way different.
Use petroleum to:
create a crisis for EU (real enemies) and other nations. Happening now
BREAK the corrupt global crude pricing SCAM - a direct attack on CoL (Brent). Happening now.
BIG ONE. Capture global maritime shipping, including insurance, ship building and more. Future leverage.
LFG!!
Coal is pretty useful. The rest of it, not.
Coal's energy density is a little more than half of petroleum. Multiple products can be produced from petroleum, unlike coal. Petroleum is also much easier to transport. You can even run petroleum through a pipeline.
I'm not saying coal isn't useful, but petroleum is far more useful.
Username... doesn't check out. 😂 But I do agree, no oil, we all die.
My username is not based on the solar power you’re thinking of.
I didn't think it was, but it was hard not to notice the contrast, when we're talking about oil.
Correct, everybody needs oil