I don’t understand why there’s no secondary option if Strait of Hormuz goes down. Obviously there are alternative routes out there but why big gas companies even governments did not see this coming. Are they okay losing billions? Or do they actually have a plan that ordinary people don’t know about?
shipping is way cheaper by ship. You can’t create new shipping lanes. rail and such would increase costs as is and no one would be using it when the straight is open. It would be unused infratstucture until this happens and then due to disuse it would not work.