VP Vance During Phone Interview: We Got a Lot of ‘Oil and Gas’ Out of the Strait of Hormuz Through the Great Work of Our Military, ‘We Gotta Get More’

RUSH EXCERPT:
VANCE: "You know, obviously oil prices are elevated which people see at the pump but they have come down substantially from their high point and that’s because we’ve been able despite the Iranian shooting at commercial vessels We’ve been able to get a lot of oil and gas out of the Strait of Hormuz through the great work of our military and some of our folks on the commercial side. So that that that you know we got to get more out But that has been a very successful thing because that is the Iranians leverage point They are trying to close the strait down And if we can you know not even get it back to where it was before but if we can get enough oil and gas out to give some Americans some ease at the pump some ease on energy prices Meanwhile the Iranians are punished for shooting at commercial ships That just applies a lot of economic pressure to them and that changes their calculus for you know, what kind of a deal they want to make what kind of arrangement they want to have with the United States of America Do they want to have their economy strangled for the rest of time or do they want to have a better relationship with the West? That’s always been the option that the president has put to these guys But if they’re going to shoot at ships They’re going to engage in terrorism against commercial vessels we’re going to do everything that we can to make sure that they’re not able to do that And I think we’ve been quite successful"