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US EIA reminder: Strait of Hormuz world’s most important oil chokepoint; almost 20% of oil traded worldwide

Green Car Congress

The Abqaiq-Yanbu natural gas liquids pipeline, which runs parallel to the Petroline to the Red Sea, has a 290,000-bbl/d capacity. It is located between Yemen, Djibouti, and Eritrea, and connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. The East-West Pipeline has a nameplate capacity of about 5 million bbl/d.

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Gas Prices: You Could Pay $10 A Gallon. Or Just 6 Cents. Why?

Green Car Reports

And you may thank your stars you're not in Asmara, Eritrea, where taxes. But you may wish you were in Caracas, Venezuela, where enormous government subsidies cut the price to a ridiculous 6 cents per gallon. Yep, six pennies.

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