Chinese State Media Attacks ‘Absurd,’ ‘Xenophobic’ Rubio-Scott Plan to Limit China Oil Exports

Breitbart ^ | 06/17/2022 | John Hayward

[DFG]

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday uncorked a furious tirade against “infamous U.S. Republican anti-China senators Marco Rubio [R-FL] and Rick Scott [R-FL]” because they dared to introduce a bill called the China Oil Export Prohibition Act, which would halt American exports of oil and petroleum products to the People’s Republic of China while the U.S. struggles to get soaring fuel prices under control.

“While gas prices soar across the country, the Biden Administration is allowing half a million barrels of American oil to go to China every day. This is unacceptable. We need to increase American oil production and give priority to domestic consumers, not send oil to a genocidal regime half a world away,” Rubio said on Wednesday when introducing the bill.

“It’s absurd that we continue to export oil to Communist China while Americans pay more than $5 per gallon of gas here at home,” said Scott.

“In the first three months of 2022 alone, the U.S. sent nearly 52 million barrels of oil and petroleum to Communist China. Meanwhile, families here dealing with skyrocketing prices are forced to choose between putting gas in their cars and food on the table for their kids. Americans must come before sales to Communist China,” Scott said.

The Global Times sputtered in outrage at Rubio and Scott, calling them “xenophobic” and accusing them of cynically playing to anti-China sentiments during an election year.

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[DoughtyOne]

How does Rubio/Scott see that playing out?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Amnesty Senator Rubio wants you to forget he is an Amnesty Senator until after you re-elect him and he votes for amnesty again.

[Bullish]

Must be a good plan if China opposes it.

[entropy12]

May be the long time Hispanics living crime free but illegally in United States are better for the country than Biden, Kamala Harris, Schumer, Pelosi, and the gang carrying on the farce investigation of Jan 16th events in DC. Can we do a trade?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Illegal aliens must commit crimes daily to remain illegally in the USA.

[The Klingon]

lack of oil is their strategic weakness

[entropy12]

Democrats commit anti-American deeds every second.

[entropy12]

I am looking forward to your FIRST post about something anti-democrat party. But I won’t hold my breath. Trolls never change their stripes.

[SoConPubbie]

You mean the illegal aliens illegally accessing and stealing tax-payer provided benefits, like food-stamps, and other such things?

[SoConPubbie]

So, how does that make the millions of illegal aliens less-culpable or blameless?

[ARW]

C’mon…What’s good for the EU is even better for us.

[rottweiller_inc]

Lol. It doesn’t matter to them how it plays out as long as the world sees them as powerful men. Don’t you know who they are?

[fella]

The ChiCom’s need for our oil just got reduced with the Shanghai refinery closure.

[DoughtyOne]

What I was trying to point out, is how do these two think
we could enforce a Chinese export ban on oil?

Doesn’t that seem like a fantasy to you guys?

[redcatcherb412]

China is buying discounted Russian oil. Why would they want to buy oil the U.S. bought from the Saudi’s?

[DoughtyOne]

That sounds reasoned, but here is the question I was trying
to raise.

See post 16 (right above your own)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4071925/posts?page=16#16