Why not just bypass Hormuz and go that way? Oh, that's right, it would remove oil corporation excuses to jack up the price of gasoline.

doesn't have the same capacity as that in the Persian Gulf. It's not in Saudi Arabia's financial interest to invest in that infrastructure if the crisis lasts only a few weeks or months.

The alternative infrastructure would also be vulnerable to Houthi attacks so there isn't much too gain by expanding the pipelines and ports on the Red Sea side.

When I lived in Houston, my next door neighbor was six months in and out from Jeddah, working for Shell. They actually shipped about half of their product out that way, according to him, aside from it being shorter, Iran has always been a threat that costs them in security if they go out the straits. And again, according to him, Jeddah has always been the contingency plan in the event of a war emergency and it does have the capacity, along with ports to the north and south, to handle just about everything the Saudis produce, along with Kuwait. It's a matter of turning a valve. Not sure that's an option for Bahrain, Qatar or the UAE, but their production isn't that much compared to Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. The problem isn't logistics in an emergency, the problem is that if they do turn that valve, the Saudis and Kuwaitis won't make money off the emergency. The infrastructure investment there, done post WW2, was made by the British and the Netherlands. The Red Sea is the Suez Canal route. You don't go past the Houthi's to the south, you go through the canal to the Med.

The Houthi made some noise, but they do not have the resources to disrupt shipping coming out of the Red Sea. They made some noise, got knocked down, and they can't really get back up.

which report that the pipeline to the Red Sea is only currently running at half-capacity, and can be doubled, and there are plans to do that.

I lived in Texas for a while, and didn't know much at all about the oil business until a family moved in next door who had lived in Saudi Arabia for a decade. The husband worked for Shell. We see deceptive and corporate owned news media focus our attention on the Straights when the Iranians act up and because they've always been a rogue nation, but most of the oil out of there that comes our way, except maybe from Bahrain or Qatar, or Kuwait, comes from the west coast ports to tankers going through Suez. No Houthis, no Straights of Hormuz, just the Red Sea to Suez (or another pipeline up that way) across the Med and either into Europe or on to the United States.

The propaganda about the Straights of Hormuz is to get information out to justify raising prices and grabbing off bigger profits.

https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-energy-export-reroute-red-sea-yanbu-iran-war/

in a world of instant gratification. Constantly looking at devices, very little effort to do anything, and everyone becomes the victim. I know this sounds like an old person's rant (and I am old) but it seems to be insanity by choice. The fact that the current generation only knows this kind of world is scary and sad. I fear we have really, really fucked up...big time. This cannot end well.

All the while there are millions of people suffering around the world, barely getting by, no creature comforts like food, water, bathing, etc. and they are the forgotten masses as this insanity continues - if there really was a God I suspect it might be time for a reset. But the answer is never that easy.