• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Long term it would be better to just dig a canal through that space, but all of it would still take years to build and isn’t a solution for the current crisis.

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      I mean all you doing is moving a choke point near Iran for a smaller choke point slightly farther away from Iran. A canal doesn’t really help here.

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    1 day ago

    The right cannot grasp the concept of scale. That why they bought the millions of illegal voters idea. A thing can happen, so it can happen a million times, seems logical to them.

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    11 hours ago

    Pipeline to Salalah could work, just a bit expensive and takes a lot of time to build, and border crossings could be a diplomatic thing. But the pipeline would be an easy target for drone strikes and one as long as that is impossible to protect with anti air installations. Salalah - Oman already has a lot of harbor infrastructure (been there 4 times). But currently mostly for containers if I’m correct (last time there was 10 years ago though).

    But theoretically it’s possible.

    Trucks not so much, a single tanker would take thousands of trucks and there isn’t a straight and paved road through the desert. The trip would take days and loading-unloading would also take time, causing a traffic jam of oil trucks (just like the days long sewage truck traffic jam from the Burj Khalifa).

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      And don’t forget that ships are still stuck in the gulf.

      You can’t just order an oil tanker off Amazon.

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      12 hours ago

      It took me roughly a day, after seeing the original version of it, to clue-in to the pipeline variant.

      TigerAce, you’re quicker on the uptake than me.

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    Gotta give him some credit: he’s merely asking if it’s possible, not proposing it as a well-researched solution.

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        11 hours ago

        Its not correct. single truck is adequate. Noone said that the same truck couldnt go back and forth until the tanker is empty.

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          That reminds me of Tiffany’s marriage agreement with Rob Anybody

          At the end of the world is a great big mountain of granite rock a mile high,’ she said. 'And every year, a tiny bird flies all the way to the rock and wipes its beak on it. Well, when the little bird has worn the mountain down to the size of a grain of sand . . . that’s the day I’ll marry you, Rob Anybody Feegle!

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    They’ll want to change the Paris to Dakaar Rally to carry oil on this new route