Gas prices go brrrrrrr

Wright posted that "the US Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets," crediting President Donald Trump with "maintaining stability of global energy during the military operations against Iran."

Within hours, a senior source in the IRGC's naval force told Iranian outlet Iran Now that the claim "has no basis in truth," insisting that no US-escorted tanker had transited the strait.

The source described the announcement as part of a "media war and attempts to mislead public opinion," adding that the strait remains under "precise surveillance" by Iranian forces and that "any military movement in the area is fully monitored."

Wright subsequently deleted the post without public explanation, undermining a week of administration messaging aimed at convincing the world that commercial traffic would soon resume.

For an administration that relies so heavily on propaganda lies, they are remarkably terrible at lying.

In any case, even if it were true and not a pathetic lie, Donald Trump would deserve no credit for slightly mitigating the problems Donald Trump caused when Donald Trump decided to start bombing Iran and slaughtering its civilians.

Trump, the climate change denialist, doing his best to speed up the green energy transition.

Oil companies and oil tanker crews are subject to the same fog of war as everyone else. They don't know if there are mines. They don't know if they can trust the US government to protect them or pay out the insurance. They have seen US bases get bombed. They don't know if the US is lying or not because trust in the US is at an all time low.

It doesn't matter if the strait is mined or not, because the perception the strait could be mined is enough. It is simply not worth the risk.

Edit: lmao nevermind. 3 ships just tried running the blockade. Emphasis on tried

Decarbonise already FFS, make this irrelevant

Trump went like "Why just stop with US when I can fuck supermarket prices globally"

What do ya know, consequences. Carpet combing, killing their kids and turning their country into fucking hellscape.

Prices for everything will increase...again. Thank to the MAGA and Likud fucknuts!

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. Machiavelli

Markets going up in response.

Lolz. Lmao, even.

Please, someone tell me I'm not the only idiot that read this and thought they were trying to do the other type of mining.

The one that doesn't make sense at all, but rather than realising that's not the mining they were doing, because it doesn't make sense. I just got more confused as to what they possibly could have found there worth mining for in the middle of a war.

The convoy idea is so dumb that I can't believe anyone said it out loud. Effective strategy against commerce raiders, which Iran explicitly does not have. Might as well offer to mount a CIWS on tankers and hope your insurance premiums will see it as a wash (they won't). Makes as much sense as suggesting you counter drones with cavalry.

Nice to see the US government still supporting EVs these days.

I still think that EV rebates and tax credits would be more cost efficient and much less jarring than provoking Iran into destroying 20% of the world's oil supply... but I guess that I am too simple-minded for politics.

If US politicians ever imposed consequences on rich elites we might have avoided having had to learn the lesson of consequences from Iran.

Wait, the uNazied States of america government blatantly lied? I'm shocked!!