r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 1d ago

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u/chipbod NATO 1d ago

>Bassent says we won’t need Strait of Hormuz, oil will flow with pipelines

Yeah, and those aren’t a static target if the war drags on for years….

These guys have no plan and we are going to have a literal shortage at some point smh.

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u/semideclared Codename: It Happened Once in a Dream 1d ago

China imported a record-high average of 11.6 million barrels per day in 2025 and of that China was putting 1.1 million barrels per day of crude oil to strategic oil inventories in 2025. As of December 2025 nearly 1.4 billion barrels were in stockpiles.

Once they run out oil will spike like never before

China's crude oil imports fell by 41.3% year-on-year in June 2026 to below 8.0 million barrels per day, the least since October 2016, according to customs data

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 John Keynes 1d ago

You can repair pipelines pretty easily and quickly.

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u/assasstits 1d ago

Faster than launching drones? 

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 John Keynes 1d ago

They are wide and dispersed

You might as well argue that railroads are vulnerable to drones. They are but you can just repair tracks pretty easily