alwayspossible's comments

On: What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?

[alwayspossible]

Seems to me that a conglomerate of oil companies could have funded a canal and reduce this risk a long time ago. Just around this choke point in global logistics.

[pibaker → alwayspossible]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajar_Mountains

"Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

[pseudohadamard → pibaker]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

They could cover some of the costs by running selfie trips to the Wadi Jizz.

[Recurecur → pibaker]

It actually doesn’t look too bad if the canal ran on the west side of the mountains…

One hopes that will be a moot point once the Islamists fall in Iran.

[thatmiddleway → alwayspossible]

I think scarcity and price spikes are a feature not a bug.

[jazzyjackson → thatmiddleway]

My favorite conspiracy so far is the Qataris would like Iranian production to be destroyed because they drink the same milkshake

Good thing the Qataris have no influence over the American president /s

[pfannkuchen → jazzyjackson]

The Qataris wouldn’t even have to have direct influence if they more are likely to be long term friendly. I hadn’t heard this before, it would actually make a lot of sense and wouldn’t even really be a conspiracy theory just a theory (unless we consider anything multiple people in government do together to be a conspiracy).