Chris Reynolds

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Today with David McCullagh · From the gulf to the petrol pump – how you get your oil and why it's so expensive · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

That was exporting four million barrels a day, now it's f exporting seven point five million barrels a day.

If the combat of the amboon go right, they go up to Europe and America, if they go left, it goes to China, India, Pakistan, that that direction.

So as you go down past uh uh Saudi Arabia, you get down to Yemen.

And that western coast of Yemen is now completely controlled by the Houthis.

No um

They they don't call themselves the Houtis, they call themselves uh Anwar Allah, uh partisans of God.

Houthis are just the name of the leaders uh of of that sect, that uh Shia sect.

Now they've moved uh

uh down right down to the very end.

And what's worse is they've taken over two islands.

They've taken over the port of Mocca, which is the main port in Yemen on the uh Red Sea, and they've also taken over two is two islands, the most uh important being me being uh Mulu Mayum, sorry, Mayum.

That's only twenty kilometers across from Djibouti.

That is an absolute choke point for shipping.

So any ship that that wants to pass through has to go within ten, fifteen kilometers of Hootie control territory before it can turn left into the Red uh into the Red Sea and out into the Indian Ocean for China or India.

So it is an absolute choke point for shipping if the Houthis decide.

Because Iran tells them to.

So I mean the Houtis are the Houtis are a Shia sect, as uh as Iran is is Shia.

Uh the uh Saudis are Sunnis, they're uh they ha they wear strongly Wahhabiism, uh but they're now uh easing off on on those restrictions.

I was in Jeddah not too long ago and and women were now uh driving cars on the beach by themselves with their families and taking off their veils in restaurants.

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