Its not enough to make a meaningful differece. Pulling all the levers still cant close the huge gap of the blocked straigt.

The problem is that no matter how many of these strategic levers governments pull, they just can’t replace the amount of oil that’s stuck waiting to move through the strait.

“Fifteen million barrels a day isn’t easy to offset anywhere,” says Dan Pickering, the chief investment officer with Pickering Energy Partners. “That’s the total production in the United States, and we’re the biggest producer in the world. There is no easy fix.”

Starting the war was a colossal fuck up that they cant fix except by ending it.