{"id":1356807,"date":"2022-03-03T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356807"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T17:22:45","slug":"biden-u-s-open-to-banning-russian-oil-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-u-s-open-to-banning-russian-oil-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: U.S. \u201cOpen\u201d to Banning Russian Oil Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-u-s-open-to-banning-russian-oil-imports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> said Wednesday that he is open to banning Russian oil imports to penalize Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you considering banning Russian oil imports?\u201d a reporter asked Biden on the White House lawn on Wednesday morning.\u00a0\u201cNothing is off the table,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a>\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and European Union hammered Russia, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and top Russian banks with sanctions, while a number of private corporations, shipping firms, sporting leagues, and tech companies said they would refuse to do business in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the Biden administration\u2019s policies have said that the United States should restart the Keystone XL pipeline construction and again renew drilling leases to ramp up domestic oil production, instead of relying on Russian oil. Currently, the United States obtains much of its crude oil from Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, but it still imported about 3 percent of its crude oil from Russia in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-does-the-u-s-still-buy-russian-oil-11646151935\">according<\/a> to the Wall Street Journal, citing the\u00a0Lipow Oil Associates LLC in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also said Russia is targeting civilians in Ukraine but declined to say whether any war crimes were committed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear they are\u201d targeting civilians, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-02-22\/index.html\">told<\/a> reporters in Washington. But when asked about the prospect of war crimes, he said,\u00a0\u201cWe are following it very closely. It\u2019s too early to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also remarked that it is up to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on whether to stay in Ukraine. Previously, Zelensky said he believes he is the No. 1 target for Russia and his family is No. 2, as U.S. officials said the initial phase of Russia\u2019s invasion was designed to decapitate the Kyiv government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s his judgment to make and we\u2019re doing everything we can to help him,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second-biggest city, with a population of about 1.5 million, came under bombardment again Wednesday, and a strike reportedly hit a hospital in the country\u2019s north. Meanwhile, a 40-mile-long (64-kilometer) column of Russian tanks and other vehicles stood outside the capital, Kyiv, while invading forces pressed their assault on the strategic port cities of Kherson and Mariupol in the south.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon local time, Russia also alleged its forces captured the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, reported Reuters. However, Aleksiy Arestovych, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s office, said that \u201cthe city has not fallen, our side continues to defend\u201d amid ongoing fighting, highlighting the opposing claims of military victories on both sides of the conflict.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is open to banning Russian oil imports to penalize Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. \u201cAre you considering banning Russian oil imports?\u201d a reporter asked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}