Sixty percent of Russia’s exports are energy related.
The President of the United States is authorizing the export of Russian oil, gas, wood, and even uranium. He is afraid, thanks to his failures, that higher gas prices will cause even more inflation and cause his polling numbers to fall even further.
Every day that President Biden does not sanction Russian energy is a day we have not done everything we can do to stop this war.
Ukrainian citizens are literally dying so Democrats do not metaphorically get slaughtered at the polls in November. That is unacceptable.
Even Nancy Pelosi has reversed herself and supports sanctioning Russian energy. Russian oil imported into the United States amount to only three percent of our oil imports. Just a few years ago, we had zero oil imports because the United States was energy independent.
Joe Biden and the Democrats point to unfilled leases on federal lands that oil companies did not use. They claim this is proof those oil companies were not interested in investing.
But those oil companies expected Biden would increase regulatory costs on them to drill so they opted not to make investments in what Biden would ensure were money losers. Some of them, when they took the leases, saw gas prices so low that the investment was not worth it. But oil is now over $110 a barrel, a record high.
Now is the time to drill baby drill. Now is the time to make America energy independent. Now is the time to fully tap ANWR. Now is the time to build gas and oil pipelines, including the Keystone XL pipeline.
We cannot convert all of America to electric cars tomorrow. We need to increase domestic fossil fuel production for reality and not be dependent on foreign oil for some ideal. We need to ban Russian energy exports immediately.
Every day we do not, Americans are helping Russia fund their war. Every day we do not, Ukrainians are dying just so Democrats do not pay a price in the polls for high gas prices. This is shameful.
And 25% of the world's wheat is grown in two countries: Russia and Ukraine. The Russians can weaponize food as easily as they can weaponize oil and gas., The path to global disaster has many entrances.
Here are several truths that the Left always misses:
1. The source of crude oil does not affect the consumption of oil outside of the cost to move it.
2. It is more environmentally damaging to ship crude to the US than pump it here.
3. Pulling 60,000,000 barrels of oil from our reserves is about three days consumption.
4. On average each US resident uses 20 barrels of crude per year.
5. Adding 2,000,000 illegal residents increases annual consumption by 40,000,000 barrels.
6. Each watt of renewables must have an equal amount of "bad" backup to avoid brownouts.
7. The most "green" of all energy sources is nuclear.
8. Electric vehicles can only increase the total amount of air pollution unless 100% nuclear.
9. Overall hydrogen fuel increases pollution and is very dangerous to transport and store.
10. You can't violate the Laws of Thermodynamics nor can you repeal them.