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It only Tuesday and the average price of a gallon of gas in these United States just topped $4.

So President Trump is proposing a new strategy to get oil from Iran's Strait of Hormuz for, quote, all of those countries that can't get jet fuel.

But then crude oil prices rose again after an Iranian drone set a Kuwaiti oil tanker on fire.

So, yeah.

Coming up on Today Explained, how and where and why Iran is winning this war.

This is Today Explained.

Jerry Doyle, he's the global defense editor at Bloomberg News.

Jerry, what's the Strait of Hormuz?

How did Iran actually shut the Strait of Hormuz down?

How is it keeping these giant tankers from just going through?

I understand how landmines work.

How do you actually mine the water, though?

This is maybe an insane question, Jerry, given what the United States has done in Iran over the last month.

But is blocking the Strait of Hormuz legal?

Like this is such an important this is such an important waterway.