Tweet: 2029591100848005487
Author: @LimitlesCobz
Date: Thu Mar 05 16:13:21 +0000 2026
URL: https://x.com/i/status/2029591100848005487
Oil at $200 isn't weeks away. It's DAYS.
Saudi Arabia just did something it has NEVER done during peacetime. They're rerouting millions of barrels away from the Persian Gulf because storage has literally HIT THE LIMIT.
Read that again. The biggest oil producer on earth CAN'T STORE any more oil on its own coast.
⚠️ WHAT JUST HAPPENED:
→ Saudi Arabia is diverting oil from the Persian Gulf to Red Sea ports
→ Five supertankers already shipped 10 MILLION barrels from Yanbu — the emergency route
→ Gulf storage is FULL. There is nowhere left to put it.
→ The Strait of Hormuz is a WARZONE — tankers won't go through it
→ So the oil that feeds the world is stuck. Rerouted. Delayed. Or not moving at all.
⚠️ THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS NOT SLOWING DOWN — IT'S COLLAPSING:
→ Iranian refineries — BOMBED. Production stopped.
→ Iranian ports — BOMBED. Ships can't load.
→ Mehrabad Airport — BOMBED. No air freight.
→ Kuwait tanker — ATTACKED. Oil leaking into the sea.
→ QatarEnergy — FORCE MAJEURE. Exports frozen.
→ China — SUSPENDED fuel exports. Hoarding everything.
→ Houthis — still controlling Bab el-Mandeb. Second chokepoint CLOSED.
Every alternative route is either full, bombed, or blocked.
⚠️ WHY $200 OIL IS DAYS NOT WEEKS:
→ Global oil supply was ALREADY tight before the war
→ Now 20% of the world's oil transit is shut or under fire
→ Saudi rerouting proves the main route is UNUSABLE
→ Storage is MAXED — there's no buffer left
→ Iran threatened to hit "ALL economic centres in the region"
→ One strike on a desalination plant or Saudi terminal and it's over
⚠️ WHEN OIL HITS $200:
→ Gas at the pump → $7-8 per gallon. Overnight.
→ Food prices → EXPLODE. Everything moves by truck. Trucks run on diesel.
→ Airlines → start cancelling flights. Tickets double.
→ Factories → shut down. Can't afford to operate.
→ Heating bills → triple. In the middle of people's budget crisis.
→ Global recession → not a question of IF. A question of how DEEP.
The last time oil hit $150 was 2008. The world economy collapsed.
This time it's going to $200. With a war on top.
Saudi Arabia doesn't reroute oil for fun. They reroute when the main road is ON FIRE.
The fire just started. And there's no one coming to put it out.
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