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Schrodinger's Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz is both open and closed until somebody observes it. We observe it, so you can keep not thinking about where petrol comes from.

Current observation: the strait is
OPEN

The waveform has collapsed in your favour. Roughly a fifth of the world's oil floats on.

2 of the last 10 headlines contain somebody threatening to change that. This is within normal parameters.

~20%
of the world's oil passes through it, roughly 20 million barrels a day (US EIA)
33 km
wide at its narrowest point, with two 3 km shipping lanes doing all the work
0
times it has actually been fully closed, despite a truly heroic number of announcements
The evidence

Latest field reports

  1. After 6 months of war, Iran's battered regime remains entrenched - Oregon Public BroadcastingOPB · 30 Aug
  2. Oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz are rising despite the ongoing warArabian Business · 30 Aug
  3. Tehran prepares conditions to open Strait of HormuzMorning Star | The People’s Daily · 30 Aug
  4. Global Defense Stocks Screening For Strait Of Hormuz Riskաժsimplywall.st · 30 Aug
  5. Iran war live: Tehran pledges to stand firm against ‘unjust’ US sanctionsAl Jazeera · 30 Aug
  6. Strait of Hormuz shipping disruption delays Boston food waste collectionBBC · 30 Aug
  7. Farmers warned of fertiliser supply crunch as Iran war drags onThe Times · 30 Aug
  8. Iran prepares conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz - anewsA News · 29 Aug
  9. No One Knows How to End the War with IranRolling Stone · 29 Aug
  10. Iran’s Navy Says It Has ‘Full Control’ Over Strait of HormuzEnergyNow.com · 29 Aug

Methodology: headlines from Google News mentioning the Strait of Hormuz, refreshed every fifteen minutes. The verdict flips to CLOSED only when multiple current reports describe an actual closure, not the regularly scheduled threat of one. Oil volumes: US Energy Information Administration. This page is satire wrapped around real data, which lately is hard to tell apart from the news itself.

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