We continue to fund the Russian war machine to the tune of billions per month.
According to Department of Energy data, the US stopped importing Russian oii two weeks ago.
And the reasons make a lot of sense—other than the obvious. The obvious being that few companies (aside from Shell, evidently) want the PR mess.
But also, who would buy oil getting shipped across an ocean to a port that probably wouldn’t unload it. At this point it would have to go to Mexico or south America and get re-flagged. That is very expensive.
While to government won’t “help”, individual brokers have already taken this step.
And...based on the data, the amount we were importing was significantly less than what the pols and the pundits are talking about. I don’t know where they are getting their numbers—but they aren’t coming from the people who record where the oil is coming from.
Of course, in the past couple of weeks the amount of non-factual reporting has far exceeded the standard method of getting facts.
Your mileage may vary. (Pun intended.)