Saudi Crown Prince has echoed Washington's assertion that the kingdom's arch enemy Iran was responsible for attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.
The problem is, it's located at refineries and terminals, not gas stations and a big part of the crisis is that there's a shortage of tanker truck drivers to get the fuel from A to B. Another problem, panic buying.
Companies say there just aren't enough qualified drivers out there to man the tanker trucks, and that's happening just as the summer driving season gets underway.
It was an explosion which never should have happened, and a subsequent inquiry laid the blame not on anyone who had actually been on the tanker at the time, but on the owners of the tanker.
14,000 people were moved to refuge zones like school gyms and town halls and a tanker ship was blown from it's anchorage at sea into a bridge in southern Japan.
And for bulk supplies like fuel, that comes just once or twice a year, when a tanker navigates through the brief summer window before the ice closes in again.
The National Tank Truck Carriers, an industry trade group, says roughly 20 to 25 percent of tanker trucks are parked right now because there aren't enough qualified drivers to run them.
The blockage caused a growing back up of over 400 tankers and freighters putting perishable cargo like livestock at risk, causing fuel rationing in Syria and driving up shipping prices.
We had clear evidence that this tanker was heading for syria. If we get the guarantees that it is not gonna get to Syria, then we can resolve the situation following due process in the Gibraltarian courts.