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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has put a number on the Strait of Hormuz: 9 million barrels of oil in average daily transit, she stated. The figure is a specific claim from a sitting cabinet official.
What the statement leaves open is what the number is being used to support. The counterargument to reading this as a self-contained data point is the straightforward one.
A daily average is a description of the center, not the edges.
Granholm's 9 million barrel figure, as sourced, does not extend to a stress scenario or to what the department's posture would be if that transit volume faced disruption.
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