President Biden announced a ban on any oil or gas imports from Russia this morning in conjunction with the United Kingdoms. The UK imports only 5-8% of its oil from Russia. Domestically, we important less than 200,000 barrels of oil per day from Russia, a number offset by the 30 million barrels of oil our President is making available from the Strategic Oil Reserve.
As expected, commodities traders went into a frenzy and WTI futures briefly surged past 7% before calming as the reality of our complete lack of an oil shortage set in.
Now, what does that mean for the world as the majority of our European allies aren't sharing in the import ban? Very little. The other major oil consumers of the world continue to take deliveries, but it sends a powerful message of solidarity with Ukraine.
Domestically the President has called out the energy conglomerates for not utilizing their existing oil and gas leases and warned them about using this as an excuse to price gouge at the expense of our nation. We shall see what comes next.
Sometimes I read a Seran post just for the laughs, and oh boy did this one deliver!
Even assuming we take your figures at face value (and I'm sure they are way off) 30 million barrels will only last us 150 days at a deficit of 200k barrels a day, after that we now have a DAILY deficit of 200k barrels a day, when gas prices are already over 7 dollars per gallon in certain areas of the country. That's a 1% deficit for us.
I also like how you say "ONLY" imports 5-8% of their oil from Russia. You do know that is quite a significant number right? Even 1% is a significant number.
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“According to energy analysts and experts, President Trump’s reckless decision to pull out of the Iran deal has led to higher oil prices. These higher oil prices are translating directly to soaring gas prices, something we know disproportionately hurts middle- and lower-income people, since a larger chunk of their disposable income goes for gasoline.” -Chuck E. Schumer Sure he said that in 2018, but it wasn't right then.. so why wouldn't he try to use it in 2022?
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