From JMIC Update 45: Bab-el-Mandeb Strait tanker transits average 13.42/day May 7-13, 2026

 Strait of Hormuz 1.57/day.

BAM tanker transits aren't even up to 2022's average of 30/day. The crisis of the oil trade is not being significantly ameliorated by Red Sea operations.

 

Estimates continue to put 5 million barrels per day leaving Yanbu, much of it heading to buyers in east Asia.

Fujairah in the UAE exports shy of 2 million barrels per day, also to the east. 

Iran's exports in April are said to be shy of 1 million barrels per day.

Kuwait exported nothing.

Iraq exported maybe 0.131 million barrels per day.

So 8.1 million barrels per day in April?

21.0 million barrels per day left the region in 2022. 

 

RobbyD, hater of idiocy according to his bio, is upset with Democrat Senator John Fetterman for voting Nay on the US House War Powers resolution on Iran ROFLMAO

 

Herr Kurt Schlichter's hit piece on Thomas Massie says Massie married a leftist after his long-time wife died in 2024, when she was actually a staffer for Senator Rand Paul

"No heat" Massie's 2021 Christmas Card Photo

 

And Rand Paul once again strongly endorses Massie's re-election.

 Good Riddance to the Awful Thomas Massie

... Before his wife sadly died young a couple of years ago, he was content to be a fringe weirdo with bad hair and no heat. Once she tragically passed away, he visited a hairstylist, married a leftist staffer 20 years his junior, and decided he needed to broaden his horizons, which meant helping the Democrats and shafting the GOP more openly than before. ... 

Trump only wishes he could be leader for life like dictator Xi

 Trump to Xi: "You're A Great Leader. Sometimes People Don't Like Me Saying It."