Posted on 03/07/2022 1:49:10 PM PST by marcusmaximus
As Russia invades Ukraine, shelling civilians and reportedly committing war crime-level brutality, President Biden has put harsh sanctions to Kremlin-tied businesses, banks and oligarchs, but not the oil and gas industry.
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Experts say that U.S. oil and gas supply could likely recover from a Russia ban as their fuel accounts for a small share of total product, and the nation could turn to wells here at home or ask other nations to increase supply.
Where does the US get its oil?
Russia is the third largest exporter of crude oil and petroleum products to the U.S. America gets most of its crude imports first from Canada, 51.3 percent, then from Mexico, 8.4 percent, then Russia, 7.9 percent, then Saudi Arabia, 5.1 percent, according to 2021 statistics from the Energy Information Agency.
Imports for crude oil, used to make gasoline, were an even smaller share - Russia provided the U.S. with 3.5 percent of its crude oil imports.
The U.S. increased its share of Russian crude oil and petroleum products significantly during President Biden's first year in office. 'When you look at total imports of Russian crude oil and petroleum products last year they jumped 24 percent to a record 245 million barrels,' global energy analyst Stephen Schork told DailyMail.com in an interview.
'That massive infusion of petrol dollars into Putin's war chest has helped fund his misadventures in Ukraine.'
Imports of crude oil alone surged 162 percent. In 2020, the U.S. imported 28 million barrels of Russian crude oil. Now that number is up to 73 million barrels.
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Simple. ChiComjoe and his Deepstate puppetmasters are traitors to the United States of America.
Because Texas didn't set aside 10% for the big guy?
There can only be one answer. It isn’t hard to figure out if you have read anything about the globalist great reset.
They best way to sanction Putin is $40 oil, not $140. These people are morons.
But Jen Psaki and Biden want us to suffer with high energy costs, they could care less.
I am sure fracking is revving up. Hope that starts to flow soon.
Easy Answer:
Terrorists PAY Big Bribe Money, Texans won’t
Face it people the Biden administration hates the American people. Enough said
Americans aren’t upset about gas prices.
Where are the protest demonstrations?
GPM!
Gas Prices Matter!
When does the looting begin?
The answer is very simple. The Democrat party is basically socialist quasi Marxist communist. Joe Manchin excepted, he is the old Democrat of past and no longer loved by the Democrat Party.
The answer thus is that the Democrat Party is philosophically more aligned to our admitted enemies than our great nation. Thus their actions are clearly understood. They are the enemy within and mostly useful idiots that do not know what they are doing. Those at the top of the Democrat party know exactly what they are doing. Those are the enemy and traitors.
A quote from Cicero far my eloquent than my post explains it all. This quote is more than 2000 years old and before the time of Christ. It is BC.
““A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
My comment is thus, “IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME TODAY.”
Historically it's because of the Jones Act and because Texas doesn't produce the type of sour crude certain refineries need.
In the present circumstance I imagine we'll figure a way around that."The U.S. buys Russian oil in part to feed refineries that need different grades of crude with a higher sulfur content to make fuel at top capacities. U.S. refineries were designed decades ago to use heavier grades of crude, often with higher levels of sulfur, when domestic supplies were lower."
Biden is too dumb to understand. If he had any brainpower at all, we would have resumed drilling by now.
I am sure fracking is revving up. Hope that starts to flow soon.
Joe can’t comprehend whether 7% falls between 3% and 5% or 9% and 11%! The dolt doesn’t have a clue.
why is
TaliBiden
choosing ‘terrorists over Texans’?
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After Afganistan you have to ask ?
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It is very simple. Different refineries are geared towards different sorts of oil. The Russian Urals blend is close to the Venezuelan oil and was used to displace it.
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