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There is a paved overland route, from Abu Dhabi to Al Ashkharah. About 773 km or 8 hrs according to Google maps. Now you just need to build a shipping terminal (I'm assuming Al Ashkharah doesn't have the infrastructure in place) and enough trucks for 20% of daily global oil consumption. One ship holds about 2 million barrels, so that's just (on the basis of some googling) 7,246 standard truckloads per ship, times an average of 100 transits per day is 724,600 trucks. I'm sure they won't mind the extra traffic.
Might get a little hairy around the Al Salam Grand Resort, though.
Plus: that roadway is in range of shahed drones, and so shipment convoys could be easily attacked.
Just spread the trucks out from their current density of 1 per meter to uh, something else.
Since 6 axel semi trailer trucks are about 16 meters long, you can easily accommodate 1 per meter, by simply making this over 773 km long road a 16 lanes highway. Oh wait, the empty trucks have to drive back too. So 32 lanes in total. And add a few lanes for other traffic, because these trucks will have to drive bumper to bumper. If you want to spread them out against attacks, there's always space for more lanes in the desert.
Aw beans, aw heck, we made another Houston, TX again, didn't we?
why don't we keep all the trucks parked on the road, but have a hose running from one to the next all the way to the port?
Actually the trucks in the very serious diagram are at least a kilometer long
Get some logs, roll the tankers over land. No need for shipping terminal or trucks, and the technology has existed since ancient times.
I'm disappointed in everyone in this subthread for not trying to work trains into this.
They understand that we're talking about American problem-solving here.
I once tried to do this in Workers and Resources. It didn't work.
I guess this would be the ONE case where you wouldn't want to just build a pipeline or a train and actually use trucks instead since they're less vulnerable to getting blown the fuck up, but that's you know assuming they do this dumb thing at all
The road could still be blown the fuck up, making the route essentially impassible to heavily-laden trucks.
Just make it a half kilometer wide superhighway.
Somehow, The Line returned.
a truck could still conceivably drive around a crater and it's easier to have an engineer corp build a makeshift bridge (maybe not for 10000 trucks per day) than lay a new rail or build a new pipeline (plus I feel like a broken pipeline large enough to circumvent the need for the strait of hormuz would dump a shitload of oil)
i'm not pro plan truck here I'm just saying my first thought was "why not pipeli- oh, wait"
It depends on the offroad terrain, because heavily-laden oil trucks aren't exactly as maneuverable as jeeps in commercials. If it's all plains or something then sure, but you only need one chokepoint along the entire route to choke it.
And it just takes one bomb and you have to close the way for a rebuild, interrupting all flow. Iran has more than one bomb ready for that job, and the US is scrambling for interceptors
So, we're making train tracks instead?