How Much Oil Does the US Import From Russia? Why Does the US Import Oil From Russia?
5 hours ago David Middleton
Guest “The answers are: Not much and because” by David Middleton
With the criminal Soviet invasion of Ukraine, the subject of US oil imports from Russia has popped up in the news quite a few times over the past week or so. As a petroleum geologist, I cringe whenever the media discusses almost anything related to oil & gas production. This is particularly true for political commentators on both sides of the political spectrum.
There seems to be some fairly common media misconceptions regarding this subject:
The importation of Russian oil is a recent development.
The volume of imported Russian oil is massive.
The US is dependent on Russian oil.
Greenlighting the Keystone XL pipeline would eliminate these imports.
Resuming oil & gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico would eliminate these imports.
Accelerating the energy “transition” to green schist would eliminate these imports (See Ron White)
Biden caused this problem.
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