Originally Posted by
bourbon
It’s a global commodity so the US would still have to pay hundreds of dollars a barrel. Moreover, the countries that do get the bulk of their oil from the Middle East are going to be pissed off; and since China would be financing said military adventurism anyway, the Iranians would have a lot of leverage playing that card. Modern blockades are not about literal survival in the siege warfare sense, but rather the leverage derived.
How? Our country was strangled at $150 bbl in 2008; we are talking about $200-300 bbl, minimum. Our economy cannot function without oil; our society cannot feed itself without oil.
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