‘We’re not subsidizing Putin’s war’: Biden says he’s hitting the ‘main artery of Russia’s economy’ by banning all energy imports, insists he pumped MORE oil than Trump in his first year and says it’s time to transition to clean energy
- The ban will be levied by the US alone without European Union allies, which rely more on Russian energy
- American markets only bought 3.5 percent of their crude oil from Russia last year, with most from Canada
- Domestic gas prices have skyrocketed since Russia launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine in late Feb
- But the crisis has still exacerbated US gas prices, which reached a US-wide record average of $4.17 per gallon
- The American Auto Association released a series of tips to help Americans ‘conserve’ fuel on Monday
- Meanwhile US officials have been looking at Venezuela and Saudi Arabia as potential sellers to fill the gap
- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said going to authoritarian Venezuela for oil is ‘the height of insanity’
- Democrat Senator Jon Tester said ‘We shouldn’t be advancing other countries who don’t share our values’
- More than 7 in 10 Americans still say they’d support a ban on Russian oil, a new poll released Tuesday shows
- The United Kingdom is expected to levy its own ban on Russian oil, with a ban on its natural gas still in talks