• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Actually, real answer is that fears of that are already lowering oil prices. That and OPEC manipulating it again. It’s not so much the ships but the transit after; also less people buying things, typical recession stuff.

    Lower prices on gas tends to be seen as a win, although ironically the US is the biggest oil supplier so it hurts the economy here too.