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GOP Sen. Ernst: ‘We Need to Cut Off Russian Energy Sources’
breitbart.com ^ | 2/28/2022 | Trent Baker

Posted on 02/28/2022 10:29:28 AM PST by rktman

Sunday on FNC’s “Fox News Live,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) emphasized the importance of doing everything possible to “allow the Ukrainians freedom and democracy.”

Ernst called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression “absolutely unacceptable.” She added that the United States needs to do more to provide lethal aid to the Ukrainians,” including cutting off Russia’s energy sources.

“[T]his is heartbreaking, Bret,” Ernst said in response to Putin ordering his country’s nuclear forces to be on high alert. “And as I’ve asked point to many viewers before, I spent some time in Ukraine while it was part of the Soviet Union in 1989. And what I learned from the Ukrainians at that point was that they wanted to be free; that remains true today. Ukrainians want to be free.”

“And what we see, this aggression shown by Russia, by Vladimir Putin — it is absolutely unacceptable, and it should be unacceptable across the world stage,” she continued. “We have to do more to provide lethal aid to the Ukrainians. We need to cut off Russian energy sources, we need to become energy independent, and we need to make sure we are doing absolutely everything we can to allow the Ukrainians freedom and democracy.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ernst; nooil
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To: rktman

According to Congressman Pete Stauber (R-MN) the USA is paying Russia $22 million per day for their oil.


21 posted on 02/28/2022 10:38:36 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: spacejunkie2001

“why doesn’t she, instead, fight like hell for the US to produce it’s own oil??“

Because these elitist POLITICIANS EACH have all the money a small town could run on for a month.. besides, THEY aren’t the ones paying for THEIR luxuries…. WE are..

According to them, WE had better learn to do with less.. so THEY can maintain and build THEIRS..


22 posted on 02/28/2022 10:40:51 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: Little Ray

Russia needs 70.00 a barrel price to profit.

Oil sells on world market price

Try studying Macro Economics.

Thanks for playing


23 posted on 02/28/2022 10:41:29 AM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable )
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To: joethedrummer

so sadly true. makes ya sick if you think too much on it.


24 posted on 02/28/2022 10:41:51 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: bray

I agree. There was a whole different take on the conflict by
Col. Macgregor today. Two 3 minute clips from Last Refuge.
The second clip more important I think.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/27/col-douglas-macgregor-has-a-slightly-different-take-on-russia-ukraine-conflict

The Col. thinks we need to mind our own business or we will make things worse. It appears to me Putin is neither crazy or sick. I also read Putin’s 21 page address to the nation night before the “invasion”. It gave me a different perspective
On what I was taught growing up...worth the read also.


25 posted on 02/28/2022 10:42:15 AM PST by megaMAGA
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To: Little Ray

Yes. Russia EXPORTS energy. We buy OIL from Russia.

November 2021, which is the last data set available,
the US imported 254,162,000 barrels of oil: From Russia, 17,855,000 barrels were imported


26 posted on 02/28/2022 10:44:34 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: rktman

We need to replace Russian imports with our own domestic production. 🤪

Trump was right


27 posted on 02/28/2022 10:47:00 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: rbmillerjr

When we take the House in November it had better be with MAGA people or the Assistant Democrats will just keep assisting the Democrats.


28 posted on 02/28/2022 10:47:39 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Being from Iowa, she probably wants more Ethanol production.
Grow corn, turn it into alcohol instead of feeding it to cows and pigs.


29 posted on 02/28/2022 10:51:09 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: rktman

Well, we cut off our own. I guess it’s time to move on in
his head.

Where does he think we get that 550 million barrels of oil
per day from, since we can’t pump our own.

Imagine, Biden trying to play WOKE at the same time he can’t
remember who his wife is from moment to moment.


30 posted on 02/28/2022 10:51:17 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Joni Ernst and her gal pal Liz Cheney (among others) want to ‘Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war’.

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/cry-havoc-let-slip-dogs-war/

NO MORE WARS! NOT ONE AMERICAN TO DIE FOR UKRAINE! (no matter how they pronounce KEEV).


31 posted on 02/28/2022 10:51:42 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: woodbutcher1963

she needs to go


32 posted on 02/28/2022 10:52:17 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: politicket

“But how will they run their cars without Ethanol?” - Sen. Joni Ernst, probably


33 posted on 02/28/2022 10:52:40 AM PST by oblomov
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To: rktman

Cool. And the plan to do that is?


34 posted on 02/28/2022 10:53:11 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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A foreign policy expert named Joni. No.


35 posted on 02/28/2022 10:54:27 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: hadaclueonce

“Russia needs 70.00 a barrel price to profit.

Oil sells on world market price

Try studying Macro Economics.

Thanks for playing”

I’ve pretty much given up on trying to fix the amazing ignorance about the world oil market.


36 posted on 02/28/2022 10:55:05 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Little Ray

Ernst is a typical dummy in our Government. We need to drill and produce all of the oil we can and flood the market down to $50 bbl like Trump did. Then cut off oil to Iran and tell anyone that buys Russian oil that they are no friend of ours. Same deal with Germany. Tell them they buy US LNG or we move our troops out and they are on their own.


37 posted on 02/28/2022 10:55:41 AM PST by abbastanza
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To: proust
5951164-A-FC71-4-D01-9408-83-FDB179-D9-C2

Why can’t we get her to talk about Biden’s character flaws?


And our shared near death experience with his deterioration



38 posted on 02/28/2022 10:57:08 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (And the Wuhan Flu came from a food market and Joe Biden comes from the black community )
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To: spacejunkie2001

Just re-elected in 2020 with Trump’s endorsement, just like McConnell, Grahamnesty, Cornyn, Cassidy, Daines, Risch, Rounds, Sasse, Sullivan and Tillis.

He really has to stop endorsing Bush League Republicans.


39 posted on 02/28/2022 10:58:35 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Translate brandDUHn’s NRG plan into russian and sneak it into their five year plan?


40 posted on 02/28/2022 10:59:06 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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