The Strait of Hormuz, located between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman of the Arabian Sea, has been in the news lately as the United States and Iran wrangle for control of the chokepoint. Learn all about the Strait of Hormuz in this great new geographic overview from Amanda Briney.
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Strait of Hormuz- geography is very intrestinggg sir
“In 2011, nearly 17 million barrels of oil, or almost 20% of the world’s traded oil flowed on ships through the Strait of Hormuz.”
Make that about 6 billion barrels. The daily rate is about 17 million.
It is rather discouraging that this article has been out for a week and apparently no one is aware of an error of such magnitude and is willing to just let it stand. After I pointed the error out yesterday I thought it would be corrected quickly. Nope, it still stands.
Perhaps only a few people have read the article. Perhaps none in this tiny group has any perspective of oil production rates. That is, none seems to realize that 14 tankers would carry about the amount given in a day, not in a year. None realizes that the figure given for 2011 Hormuz passage is about the US consumption in one day.
Yet I’d think the author and Matt would look at comments, as rare as they are.
Wow Don, you don’t let a guy sleep, do you?
You posted the first comment a mere 17 hours ago. I am not online 24 hours a day, fortunately. I did see your comment yesterday and this morning I have corrected it.
Thanks for the correction!
Matt
My (3) comment was too harsh and for that I apologize.
I am old and I find that we have in many ways become a country of ignoramuses. Seems the ability to read sentences has been replaced by the ability to read text messages. Electronic devices give very precise answers. They also give answers more wrong than ever before possible. When the grocer added up purchases with pencil writing on the wrapping paper he might make an arithmetic error but a gross error would be recognized. (I once got credited with $100,100 instead of $100 – couldn’t happed with paper and pencil.) A “Man on the street” interviewer could not find anyone in many tries that could solve fifty percent of 70. Several college graduates excused themselves, “I wasn’t a math major.” Imagine! If they were to do the problem on a calculator and got an answer of 350 or 3.5 would they realize they entered a wrong number?
In a week nobody apparently realized the error in the article. We have to presume that if the article had read “lots and lots of oil passes through the Strait” nothing would have been lost?