{"id":1357181,"date":"2022-03-03T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357181"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:37:42","slug":"white-house-opposes-ban-on-russian-oil-imports-urges-world-to-reduce-reliance-on-oil-to-punish-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-opposes-ban-on-russian-oil-imports-urges-world-to-reduce-reliance-on-oil-to-punish-vladimir-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Opposes Ban on Russian Oil Imports; Urges World to Reduce Reliance on Oil to Punish Vladimir Putin"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fwhite-house-opposes-ban-on-russian-oil-imports-urges-world-to-reduce-reliance-on-oil-to-punish-vladimir-putin%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=1357181&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/President-Joe-Biden-with-Cabinet-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden and his administration said Americans should reduce their consumption of oil and gas in order to keep prices down and ultimately punish Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki reacted to calls for the United States to stop importing oil from Russia in order to further punish Putin for escalating his invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>She said President Joe Biden and his administration were not interested in banning imports of oil from Russia, because reducing the supply would only increase prices and enrich the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this is all a reminder of in the president\u2019s view is our need to reduce our reliance on oil,\u201d Psaki said in a conversation with reporters at the daily briefing. \u201cThe Europeans need to do that. We need to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She tried to downplay the amount of oil imported by the U.S. by Russia, even though imports of crude oil to the U.S. have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/03\/01\/nolte-politifact-straight-up-lies-about-america-doubling-russia-oil-imports\/\">doubled<\/a> from a year ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only about ten percent of what we\u2019re importing,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the White House is looking for actions that \u201cmaximizes the impact on president Putin\u201d and \u201cminimizes it on the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>There is growing support from Congress in a ban on oil imports from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Jon Tester (D-MT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518372-1\/senators-manchin-murkowski-tester-introduce-banning-russian-energy-imports-act\">announced<\/a> legislation on Thursday that would ban Russian energy imports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/596719-pelosi-backs-ban-on-russian-oil-imports\">endorsed<\/a> the idea during her press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m all for that \u2014 ban it,\u201d she said. \u201cBan the oil coming from Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Republicans are using high oil prices to call for the production of more oil in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki mocked the idea of Biden allowing the Keystone XL pipeline to go forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Keystone pipeline has never been operational. It would take years for that to have any impact,\u201d she said when asked about Republican calls to approve the pipeline.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat is a proposed solution that has no relationship or would have no impact of what the problem is,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The pipeline was first rejected by former President Barack Obama in 2015, and despite former President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to restore the project, Biden again banned it after taking office in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also blamed oil companies for not drilling enough on existing oil leases on federal land.<\/p>\n<p>She indicated that Biden had more sanctions planned for wealthy Russian oligarchs in order to put more pressure on Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want him to feel the squeeze, we want people around him to feel the squeeze,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and his administration said Americans should reduce their consumption of oil and gas in order to keep prices down and ultimately punish Russian President Vladimir Putin. 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