The best Hormuz evidence today is not a slogan. It is a source map: barrels, replacement routes, inaccessible dashboards, failed EIA pages and no public passage protocol.

That is the synthesis of three earlier positions. The paper said Hormuz had fees and threats but no public protocol. It said Hormuz and Bab el-Mandab threats needed ship receipts. It said EIA source labels had to remain attached. None of those cautions has expired.

IER's fetched EIA summary supplies the cleanest current context, including a 14.6 million barrel-per-day Q1 Hormuz flow figure and replacement-route language. [1] PortWatch adds a dashboard path, but the fetched page body was not a usable dataset. [2]

That leaves a useful conclusion. Hormuz is not normal merely because ships move, and it is not closed merely because X says toll. The operating question is narrower: do public rules, ship behavior, insurers and primary energy data line up? They do not yet. Flow data beats toll slogans because it gives readers a test instead of a chant.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels