Iran never invested in such technology, they put all their money in drones and ballistic missiles which were extremely effective, we are a month in and the strait is still close.
Their strategy was never to try to sink us ships, it was disruption in the region to extend the conflict which was again very successful.
Why did they have a navy if this was their only plan?
Also blocking the straight is funny because the only people it hurts is everyone in the world but the US.
Here are historical real (inflation adjusted) gas prices for the US. You can decide how terrible this is:
Diesel is almost $7/gallon here. All the stuff we buy (food, services, electronics) are up 30-100% since the beginning of last year, but federal inflation stats claim 3%.
Some of that is differences in taxes, but some of it is due to getting gas from different sources. If we had a pipeline from Texas to CA, there would be less bifurcation.
In terms of food being bifurcated, that too is happening, but to a smaller degree.
Basically the entire West coast is suffering from high inflation.
I think you have to go back to the civil war era and greenback inflation to find numbers like that in any region.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
US about to be scroogemcducking in oil money
How many F-35s went down due to the Russian and Chinese anti-air systems in Venezuela and Iran?