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Botany

(78,140 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 10:54 AM 10 hrs ago

One factor that is guaranteed to keep the price of oil higher and the resulting price of gas higher is that ....

….. Iran is now gonna be charging a fee on every ship that goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
I don’t know if this is true but I heard the fee is gonna be $2 million per ship.

Trump

Iran was not charging a fee before Trump’s Epstein War.

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One factor that is guaranteed to keep the price of oil higher and the resulting price of gas higher is that .... (Original Post) Botany 10 hrs ago OP
As long a s The Trump Family gets a cut it will be all good. dem4decades 10 hrs ago #1
A VLCC can hold about 2 million barrels of crude oil VMA131Marine 10 hrs ago #2
It used to be free passage. flying rabbit 9 hrs ago #3
We have an idiot for a president VMA131Marine 9 hrs ago #4
No argument from me. flying rabbit 9 hrs ago #5
Before Trump started this unneeded war a top U.S. Admiral called Keating or something like that told Botany 9 hrs ago #6
As oil goes down, China will start refilling its Johonny 9 hrs ago #7

VMA131Marine

(5,374 posts)
2. A VLCC can hold about 2 million barrels of crude oil
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 10:59 AM
10 hrs ago

So that would be a fee of $1/barrel or about 2.5 cents per gallon. It’s not really anything to be worried about.

Botany

(78,140 posts)
6. Before Trump started this unneeded war a top U.S. Admiral called Keating or something like that told
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 11:27 AM
9 hrs ago

….. Trump Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. attacked them and then Hegseth fired him.

An Idiot is too polite a word for Trump.

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