The Iran War Is Destroying Something More Valuable Than Oil (Warning! This is from the House of Saud, to make a point)

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https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-refinery-crisis-saudi-aramco/

Iran has knocked 3 million bpd of Gulf refining capacity offline. Strategic oil reserves cannot fix it. Why the real energy crisis is about refineries, not crude.
March 20, 2026

DHAHRAN — The Iran war has destroyed something the world cannot quickly replace, and it is not crude oil. Three weeks of sustained Iranian drone and missile strikes across the Persian Gulf have knocked more than three million barrels per day of refining capacity offline, exposed a structural vulnerability that no strategic petroleum reserve can fix, and revealed that the global energy system’s most dangerous bottleneck was never the Strait of Hormuz. It was the cluster of irreplaceable processing plants on both sides of it. While governments release emergency crude stockpiles and traders fixate on Brent futures, the real crisis is unfolding inside the shattered distillation columns and cracking units of facilities like Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura — the kingdom’s largest refinery, shut down on March 2 and only restarted on March 18 after sixteen days of lost output. Crude oil in the ground, or even in a strategic reserve, is economically inert until a refinery converts it into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and petrochemicals. Iran’s targeting of Gulf refining infrastructure, rather than just production wells, represents a calculated escalation that exploits the single weakest link in the global energy supply chain.

Translation: We can dish it out but can't take it.
We have TOYBOY TRUMP to protect us.

Interpretation: Donald Trump is willing to destroy the world to cover up the Trump-Epstein illicit sex, blackmail and money laundering operation. And "succeeding"

Apres moi et Epstein, rien.