Veering back to the subject of this Link, the Egyptians gotta be taking gas rather than tolls from the Suez Canal. They probably have Arab friends in oil producing countries that used to ship that way, but now ship less because ship owners don't like the odds of making passage in the vicinity. By the way, Maritime Law is such that the customers who are shipping goods aboard a vessel are responsible for proportional shares in the loss of a vessel. If a tanker carries a billion tons of your oil, and it sinks, you owe the ship owners the cost of the vessel. That makes Lloyd's of London happy to take your insurance premiums, and you need insurance on your cargo, too. You're responsible for damaging any beaches & birds, too, if the Whoooties sink your boat (if it sinks, -it's yours) and if your oil washes up on Iran & Somalia's shores, that's your oil, too, and they'd like you to pay for clean-up. Get the drift? There are a lot of people getting the shitty end of the stick, and two bad guys handing out sticks. This is war by other means upon some producers of oil by other producers of oil, and they need to respond in-kind. This is shaping up to be a Shia verses Sunni confrontation. Sooner or later the situation will become intolerable and WWIII might be a Islam verses Muslim war.