Washington Post: Price of oil "spikes," WW3 imminent, we'll all die because Trump vaporized a terrorist!

Every American with an IQ over room temperature knows the Washington Post hates president Trump, and never misses an opportunity to wail and scream about any decision he makes.

As one wag put it, if Trump found a cure for AIDS, the Post would write a story showing how mankind actually needed AIDS for some obscure reason.

So...after the drone strike that killed Iran's top terror general (who happened to be in Iraq directing terror operations, thus making him fair game) the Post immediately ran a story titled "Oil prices spike...after U.S. airstrike kills Iran's top military leader."

"Spike!"  OMG, we're all gonna die!  A spike!  Poor Americans won't be able to afford to heat their homes or run their giant flat-screen TVs or re-charge their iPhone 10's!  Women, children and people of color hardest hit!

Of course journalists--which may or may not include the people who run the Post--know most readers never read past the headline, so would never learn the size of that terrifying "spike."

Care to take a guess how much the price of oil "spiked" when markets opened after the airstrike?

Twenty percent?  Ten percent?

About one-third of that last guess:  a terrifying 3.5 percent.

But don't worry, citizen:  If the spike didn't scare you, the Post's propagandist had lots of scarier threats to terrify you.  For example,

An obvious point of vulnerability is the narrow Strait of Hormuz, hemmed in by Iran's southern coast. About a sixth of the world's oil supply passes through the waterway, which is 21 nautical miles wide at its narrowest point, and has been deemed "the world's most important choke point" by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The quantity of oil ferried through the strait --[key phrase omitted, shown below]-- is nearly double that of all U.S. oil production. Should threats of attack close the passage, there could be devastating consequences for the world economy.

"SEE??!!  SEE?!  Told ya!  The amount of oil passing thru "the world's most important choke point" is double that of all U.S. oil production.  So...You're all gonna die!"

Wait...what was that  "[key phrase omitted]" thingy?  Oh, yeah:

"--much of which is headed for China, India and Japan--"

Wait...so "much of which is headed for China..."   But how much is headed to the United States? 

Zero.  Zip.  Zilch.  Nada.

Wait...I thought the U.S. imported almost half the oil we used every day!  So this can't be true!  Fake news, fake news!!

Ah...well...it's certainly true that for 20 years or so the U.S. did depend on imported oil for about half our consumption.  And back in the 1970's the oil-exporting nations of the Middle East stopped that flow and crippled life in the U.S. for several months.  Brilliant energy experts like Barack Obama and other Democrat politicians scoffed that anyone who could possibly think we could "drill our way to energy independence" was stupid.

But thanks to ingenuity by U.S. oil companies, the U.S. is now a net exporter of energy.  Yep, we no longer depend on any imported oil.  (Some U.S. oil companies do buy from Canada and Mexico but overall we're net exporters.)  Amazing, eh? 

But...if a temporary blockage of the "choke point" wouldn't cut the amount of oil to us, but instead would mainly hurt China, wouldn't Iran be really dumb to block the straits, for fear that it might spur China to intervene against Iran?

Umm...uh...IMPEACH 45!!  Yeh, dat's da solution!
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Source is the Post's article re-printed verbatim by the Anchorage Daily News.