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Well. How about that.

nytimes.com - Oil exports strait of hormuz

https://archive.is/pyXFC

In September, an average of 10 million barrels of oil has gone through the waterway daily, according to Kpler, a firm that tracks oil tankers. Separately, six million barrels of crude a day has left the Persian Gulf states this month through pipelines and ports that bypass the strait, Kpler’s data shows.

That's ~16M bbl/day. When we zero out Iran's contributions of 3.5M bbl/day we're very close to the 2025 average.

Before the war with Iran began at the end of February, around 19 million barrels of crude left the region daily through the waterway and other routes. Because of the difficulty in tracking tankers, export totals supplied by analysts might not reflect the true flow of oil, but most experts say volumes rose significantly this month.

Yep.

So why are prices high at the pump? Because gasoline is downstream of oil production-wise, and we have to catch up:
Despite the success in getting more oil out, the per-barrel price is still well above where it was before the war, and higher gasoline and diesel prices are weighing heavily on consumers around the world.

...because the gas supply needs to be increased and that takes processing time.

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