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by mememememememo 86 days ago
People work on dangerous fishing trawlers because of the $. People can be found who risk their life for money.
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Right, clearly you can always find people to ship oil through the strait. So the whole notion that nobody will use it because it's dangerous is nonsense.
If you read what I said, it was that "most people won't do it", not that nobody will do it. From the point of view of worldwide oil supply, what most tanker captains do matters more than what a few exceptions do.
I mean, tankers are sailing just fine last I looked https://www.news24.com/world/china-expresses-gratitude-after...