• Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
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    Why would oil tanker crews (which are more than likely made up of non-americans) care about “showing some guts” just so some American gas guzzlers can have cheaper fuel?

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      The idea here is providing Trump public support for attacking Iran. He’s in the tank even with his own people, but if a bunch of sailors die he can gain support…I mean probably not but Fox isnt known For its nuance

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    Hey Brian, why don’t you use your own money to buy a tanker and go through the strait yourself? Show some guts Brian!

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    Number of captains who took his advice: 0

    The power of this guy starts and stops with No-Brain individuals in America.

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    "Take massive financial risks to help Trump mitigate the cost he didn’t consider at all, of his dumb decision to go to war-not-war with Iran "

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    I wonder how many people in the comments here are also the ones saying “come on Americans, overthrow you government” it’s easy to be a tough guy when you know you’re never gonna have to do anything but leave comments online

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    It would not even touch the sides. The master answers to their employer onshore, not some berk on a morning talkshow half way 'round the world. The only thing superseeding their office would be their duty, ie laws of the sea, like if the office told them not to veer off course to answer a distress call.

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    Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade who still has a job after saying we should kill the homeless and people with mental health issues (while his other co-hosts were talking about throwing them in prisons or mental institutions)?

    That Brian Kilmeade?

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    I wonder if following through with that advice would be grounds for a lawsuit by the shipping company’s insurance

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    Trump is about to find out that ship owners won’t risk hundreds of millions per ship on an uninsurable voyage just to stroke his ego.

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      It’s not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That’s a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.

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      Oh it is insurable all right. You just have to pay what is called the “war premium”. I bet they wouldn’t like what comes through the strait anyway.

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      Oddly, due to maritime law, it’s the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.

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      Alternatively wasn’t he floating some kind of mandatory insurance scheme? mandatory in the sense that the insurer can’t refuse. Sounds like a great time to liquidate some ageing stock for yhuge profits.

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        No. Reinsurance “scheme” lets an insurer transfer all risk. If US government is willing to pay the insurer $100M, then they will charge the ship $1M or $99M for the voyage, but keep $100M total. Brian Kilmede will not volunteer to be crew on the ships no matter the pay, either.

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          Should’ve involuntarily added him to the crew of that genius “submarine”. Missed our chance.

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    if i could direct this to kilmeade i would, “get on one of those tankers and pilot it through yourself coward”