The spice must flow. So must the oil. Hey, everybody. I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.

This is Wright Engel, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, fans of Frank Herbert's Doon know that Melange makes interstellar space travel possible in the trade too.

Its only source is a desert planet Arrakus, which makes the most valuable real estate in the known universe.

The spice is addictive.

Iraqis is home to crusading religious fanatics, whose supreme leader holds the spice hostage.

And if you're thinking that sounds an awful lot like Persian Gulf oil, while Frank Herbert was

way out of head of you back in 1965.

But President Donald Trump gets it.

And what if, instead of spending another 40 or 50 years letting religious fanatics keep a stranglehold on the world's supply of oil,

we just sort of, you know, made another Persian Gulf and called it the Gulf of America.

Oh, forgive all the setup, but this stuff is actually really cool.

An analyst I follow on Twitter note, excuse me, X, noted that hundreds of supertankers,

we're talking about the kind that carry two million barrels of oil each, are currently

racing toward the U.S. Gulf Coast from every direction, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean.

They're coming around Africa, which is the scenic route.

You know, we were heading to Saudi Arabia, but never mind route.

Meanwhile, the Saudis have upped their transport through the country's east-west pipeline

to the Red Sea, bypassing the Persian Gulf.

Other Gulf states are getting serious about building their own pipelines,

and American producers and refiners are producing at near record levels, getting ready for all the

ships coming in. The Petro Dollar is now backed up by the full faith and credit of the United States Navy,

and all of this change is thanks to Iran finally following through on its decades old

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