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LA Times: California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach

"...The last California-bound oil tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since war erupted is at the Port of Long Beach offloading its valuable cargo — 2 million barrels of crude destined to be transformed into gasoline, jet fuel and diesel.....In two weeks, the Hong Kong-flagged tanker will have fully unloaded at the Marathon Petroleum terminal and departed again for distant waters. After that, California must figure out how to replace some 200,000 barrels of oil a day that will no longer be arriving from the Persian Gulf. ..."

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California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach

Now California must figure out how to replace some 200,000 barrels of oil a day that will no longer be arriving from the Persian Gulf.

^{Blanca Begert (Los Angeles Times)}