Bring on cold-fusion! Who needs oil.
I guess maybe four hours would be needed to sink their entire navy. Maybe five.
As zer0 works hard to reverse this trend with moves like effectively killing Keystone, placing roadblocks to oil drilling in the gulf, Alaska.
Let’s see...How did that Suez crisis turn out. I was in third grade. I remember concluding at that young age that these arab folks were nuts. Haven’t change my mind.
Our bombing of their only refinery that produces gasoline might cear up the the strait.
Since the Chinese are major customers and about 1/3 of their total supply goes through the Strait of Hormuz, they’ve got to be plenty pleased with their supplier. /s
Customer service? What’s that?
“What happens if the United States decides to ban Iranian ships from the strait? If the U.S. Navy closes the Hormuz, it will stay that way.”
Best statement in the article
Given modern missile technology the US navy is nothing more than a giant floating target. Iranian and military sources note that the linkage Sorouri made between the capture of the RQ-170 and the naval drill in the Strait of Hormuz was intended to inform Washington that Tehran in possession of the drone no longer fears the ability of the naval air carriers the US has deployed in the Persian Gulf to prevent its closure of the strategic waterway.
Not new: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/washington/12navy.html
There is a reason American military officers express grim concern over the tactics used by Iranian sailors last weekend: a classified, $250 million war game in which small, agile speedboats swarmed a naval convoy to inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships.
In the days since the encounter with five Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, American officers have acknowledged that they have been studying anew the lessons from a startling simulation conducted in August 2002. In that war game, the Blue Team navy, representing the United States, lost 16 major warships — an aircraft carrier, cruisers and amphibious vessels — when they were sunk to the bottom of the Persian Gulf in an attack that included swarming tactics by enemy speedboats.
>>>”About 17 percent of the world’s imported oil, or a third of oil transported by sea, goes through the strait.”<<<
I think 17% is inaccurate.
Between 40 to 30 percent of world’s oil is exported thru Strait of Hormuz - according to one report (2007) - http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/070326_iranoil_hormuz.pdf - Oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz account for roughly 40% of all world traded oil...
DO IT!!!
Let’s get this over with.
Let the gas price at the pump go up if this happens. I’ll pay 50 cents more per gallon for gas in order to weaken Obozo in November 2012. I’ll consider that my campaign contribution to stop his reelection.
Go right ahead! Nothing would make me happier than to force us to get serious about domestic and western oil sources. Close it down, bankrupt the gulf Arabs while you’re at. We’ll get the pipeline done, start real domestic production, and generally get our asses in gear around here. What could be better than a national movement for energy independence to spite our enemies? Nothing motivates people more. He’ll, I’ll put an oil well in my yard if it will keep us from buying from the damn Muslims...