The Backup Plan
🛢️ “For decades, the world believed the global oil supply depended on one narrow passage: the Strait of Hormuz.
Nearly 20% of the planet’s oil moves through that corridor.
But few people realized something interesting.
In the 1980s, Saudi Arabia quietly built a 1,200 km pipeline across its own territory.
From the Persian Gulf… all the way to the Red Sea.
If Hormuz were ever blocked, Saudi oil could still reach global markets.
A silent project from 45 years ago.
Built for a crisis that might never come.
And you wonder…
How many decisions made decades ago are still controlling the markets we trade today?