The idea of moving oil around the Strait of Hormuz by trucks sounds smart… but it’s impossible at this scale. Around 20 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz (every day), which is roughly 20% of global oil trade. A typical oil tanker truck carries about 200–250 barrels of oil. To move 20 million barrels by land, you would need roughly 80,000+ tanker truck trips every single day. > Over 3,000 trucks per hour > Around 50–60 trucks every minute > Nearly one truck moving every second Now consider that a single VLCC supertanker can carry about 2 million barrels of oil. Replacing just one of those ships would require roughly 8,000–10,000 tanker trucks. Even if you somehow had that many trucks, ports would need to unload millions of barrels from ships truck by truck, transport them hundreds of kilometers across land, and then reload them onto ships again. The infrastructure for that simply doesn’t exist. This is why pipelines are used instead of trucks. But even the pipelines that bypass the Strait can only move a small fraction of the total oil that passes through it every day. In short, the scale of global oil trade is so massive that the Strait of Hormuz remains one of the most important energy chokepoints in the world, and there’s currently no realistic land-based alternative that can replace it.