{"id":1359869,"date":"2022-03-05T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359869"},"modified":"2022-03-05T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:38:10","slug":"gop-rep-rogers-every-barrel-of-russian-oil-we-buy-has-ukrainian-blood-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-rogers-every-barrel-of-russian-oil-we-buy-has-ukrainian-blood-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. Rogers: Every Barrel of Russian Oil We Buy Has &#039;Ukrainian Blood on It&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fgop-rep-rogers-every-barrel-of-russian-oil-we-buy-has-ukrainian-blood-on-it%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=1359869&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\/GettyImages-1228559987-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Despite waging an unpopular war against Ukraine, Russia continues to be one of the globe\u2019s top exporters of oil. Among the nations continuing to import oil from Russia is the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Service Committee, called for that to end during an appearance on Mobile, AL radio FM Talk 106.5.<\/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>Rogers said the Russian oil had \u201cUkrainian blood on it \u201d and insisted there were more suitable sources of energy for the United States to consider.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRussia \u2014 their economy is basically, they\u2019re a gas station,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s literally where almost half of their money comes from. They\u2019re selling gas and oil to other countries. The fact is we\u2019re still buying a lot of Russian oil here in the United States. At a minimum, we should stop that because it\u2019s got Ukrainian blood, every bit of it. Every barrel we buy, it\u2019s got Ukrainian blood on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no reason for us to keep funding his illegal war,\u201d Rogers continued. \u201cEven Nancy Pelosi has come out to call for us to stop buying Russian oil. Biden ought to get the message pretty soon. The fact is, and this is true of all your listeners, our gas prices are going to go up because of what\u2019s happening in Ukraine because of the disruptive nature it has had to the energy sector, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when we stop buying Russian oil, it will go up even more,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt is going to be painful, but we should not be giving money to Russia to kill Ukrainians in this illegal war. What we need to be doing is reopening drilling on federal lands, reopening the XL pipeline that Biden stopped when he agreed to open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. We\u2019ve got a lot of resources in this country that we can dramatically increase our production of natural gas and oil and be self-sustaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he\u2019s got to be willing to have the strength to tell the environmental climate change lobbyists that we\u2019ve got to do this because he\u2019s the one that cut them all off when he took power, when he took the presidency, and now we\u2019re paying a price for it,\u201d Rogers added. \u201cAnd so, all the things that are about to happen as far as higher energy prices can be remedied here at home if he\u2019ll just have the will and the leadership to make the decisions to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_poor\">@jeff_poor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite waging an unpopular war against Ukraine, Russia continues to be one of the globe\u2019s top exporters of oil. 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