The White House had been reluctant to take action against the world's No. 2 oil producer.
of oil from Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. But the White House had been reluctant to take action against the world's No. 2 oil producer.not to support bipartisan legislation to ban oil and gas imports from Russia, Axios first reported Saturday."When it comes to oil, Russian oil, I was on the phone yesterday with the president and other members of the Cabinet on exactly this subject," Blinken said.
"And we are now talking to our European partners and allies to look in a coordinated way at the prospect of banning the import of Russian oil while making sure that there is still an appropriate supply of oil in world markets."since the mid-2000s, but the country remains a significant importer. The U.S. imports from Russia have bounced around, from more than 800,000 barrels per day in mid-2021 to about 400,000 per day in December.Between the lines:
In an illustration of how toxic it is for a western company or country to buy Russian oil right now, U.K.-based Shell was backed intoThat was after Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba
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