WHY IS THE UNITED STATES BUYING RUSSIAN OIL?

I am all in for Green Technology! We need to be more strategic in our thought-process

1. Worst energy crisis since 1973! 80% of our energy comes from oil and gas
2. Safest way for oil to travel is in a pipeline and below ground. Not on trucks traveling down the highway.
3. Americans consume 20 million barrels of oil a day! When Biden talks about tapping strategic reserves-only enough oil to last 3 days! unbelievable!!!!!!

Here are some facts:

1. Wind/Solar cannot power a modern economy right now.
2. It sounds all warm and fuzzy, but the technology is not there
3. Even Germany just apologized for being too dependent on RUSSIA for oil (national news). Germany is now going to spend 2% or more on their defense budget as the last administration told them to do.
4. It would have been nice during the state of the union if Joe Biden said hey “we made some mistakes with Afghanistan, Covid19 and we were energy independent under the last admonition and we need to go back to that. That kind of talk would have won some points with the American people.
5. When your enemies (China, Russia) say they are going to use fossil fuels—You have to use them as well! You can’t be dependent on your enemies for resources and destroy The US economy because you want to be warm and fussy. I am all for green. The US has done more for climate change than any country in the world. We put 1 billion into the climate fund when everyone else put nothing-its voluntary. We have clean coal, unlike china. Our smoke stakes omit vapor! We have scrubbers on our smoke stakes. So you should not get so upset about coal!

THE USA WILL BUY SOLAR PANELS FROM CHINA!

Why are we spending 70M a day on Russian oil? That is right folks 70M a day from an enemy. Think about the craziness of this… Joe Biden is running around trying to look like a tough guy, the big guy is hitting Russia with sanctions over Vladimir Putin’s obscene invasion of Ukraine. But at the same time, we pay Russia in the vicinity of $70 million per day for oil imports. during these seven days of Putin’s criminal war against Ukraine, we’ve sent this same Putin during those same seven days close to a half-billion dollars! What the hell is going on?

U.S. imports of crude oil averaged 6.1 million barrels per day in 2021 and accounted for about 40% of crude processed by U.S. refineries.

61% of imports were from Canada; 10% from Mexico; 6% from Saudi Arabia; and 3% from Russia.
2021 crude imports from Russia averaged 0.2 million barrels per day, the highest level in many years, but still a small share of total imports and total crude oil processed by U.S. refineries (~1%). U.S. refineries processed 15.1 million barrels per day of crude oil in 2021.

Crude oil from Russia is imported into the Northeast (PADD 1), the Gulf Coast (PADD 3), and the West Coast (PADD 5). Imports of Russian crude oil into the West and Gulf Coasts increased from 2019 to 2021, while imports to the East Coast decreased because of changes in the global market.
conditions, as well as disruptions and shifts in supply patterns of U.S., produced crude oil, and changes in U.S. refinery operations.

Crude oil imported from Russia varies in quality, although most of the crude oil imported from Russia in 2021 was light.

On the West Coast, Russian crude is imported to supply refineries in Hawaii, California, Washington, and Alaska. In 2021 supply of Russian crude oil to refineries in California and Washington state increased substantially versus 2019, helping to offset lower volumes of light sweet crude imports into California from other countries, notably Nigeria, and lower volumes of U.S. produced crude oil shipped by rail to Washington.
Imports of crude oil from Nigeria to the West Coast averaged 61,000 barrels per day in 2019 but dropped to zero by mid-2021 and averaged only 16,000 barrels per day for all of 2021. The decline reflects the challenges Nigeria has faced in returning crude production to pre-pandemic levels. Most of the crude oil imported from Nigeria into the West Coast has been light sweet crude oil and the Russian crude oil supplied to the West Coast is lightly sweet as well.
The increase in 2021 imports from Russia reflects the increased availability of Russian crude oil for Pacific loadings and the economics for that crude. The Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline moves Russian crude oil to the Pacific port of Kozmino, which allows Russian crude to be cost-effectively supplied to U.S. refineries in Hawaii and on the West Coast. The ESPO pipeline was years in planning and construction – see map below – and was undertaken to allow Russian crude oil to reach a larger global market – prior to the pipeline most Russian crude exports were through the Black Sea or by pipeline to Eastern Europe. The ESPO pipeline can move 1 million barrels per day of crude oil to the port of Kozmino and an additional 0.6 million barrels per day to China.

@mcclonecapital

[OmPhotoFilms]

Well said mcclone, you know what you are talking about.

[somerandomanimations]

Importing fuel is NOT the same thing as buying fuel! Hopefully, the fuel is NOT being paid for during this war. Just consumed.

[billb]

Truth is like poetry and most people F-king hate Economic prosperity is the most important thing after all. That's why slavery was such a great thing. The prosperity derived from it is unmatched throughout history. Our forefathers knew it and reveled in its inherent prosperity. Yes, I'm being

[demi]

Nothing our Gov. does makes sense. Cut oil production when it needs to be increased. Most of our problems are a result of Gov. policies. Worrying about a border far away instead of fixing ours.

[zarayousouf]

Remember: Gull Island, Prudhoe Bay sits on enough oil and natural gas to power us for 200 years.

[mestanmestan]

TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN BOARDER……..who cares about there boarder

[-gachadoruk-]

The United States needs to produce so much oil, as to drive the price so low. And when prices are low. Buy all the Oil from foreign nations.

[larrydavid]

We are already dealing with inflation and this will only be passed on to the consumer we live in a global economy. Jen Psaki was asked about stopping the 650 barrels we are currently purchasing per day from Russia. She said the repercussions of stopping the oil purchase could be worse driving oil to 150 or even 200/brl. That could result in $8 to $10/gal gasoline overnight basically contributing to hyperinflation so many economists have warned us about. The short-term potential threat of the economic damage contributed by hyperinflation far exceeds any long-term damage of global warming. We cannot overnight phase out petroleum fuel without a painful possibly even catastrophic impact of hyperinflation. Hyperinflation has resulted in the end of many nations including accent Rome. We immediately need to return to energy independence with a long-term slow phase out of petroleum fuels.

[dump]

The US has more oil than any other country on the planet. This purchase is absurd.

[dann]

The only way it makes sense is if they are working for worked with Vladimir Putin in the 1990s, thanks to an Exxon project on Russia's Sakhalin Island. In 2011, Tillerson had ExxonMobil enter into a deal with Russian oil company Rosneft. Putin, apparently pleased by the deal, awarded Tillerson membership in Russia's Order of Friendship in 2013...

[jenlynkabalbalan]

The environment excuse also makes no sense. If we were energy independent people could afford to buy e.v. more money would stay in us that we could invest in clean energy. Instead we burn the same amount of oil just buy it from Russia

[trimmiking]

Mcclone, Keystone XL looks pretty good right now.

[Penguin-fqtb]

The bigger question is "Why is our Russian Embassy still operating"? We should remove our diplomats and order Russian out of this country..Including at the U.N. .So should every other democratic country..And stopping all trade exports & imports.

[arbeeen]

Trump: lets pump our own oil….Biden: lets buy oil from Russia

[mannythurman]

But make no mistake, the biggest threat to world peace is China🇨🇳!, not Russia. The best way to demonstrate your courage is to leading an army of volunteers and fighting on streets of Kyiv, which Ukrainians want badly now. You would be the greatest hero in the universe like Volodymyr Zelenskyy​ and nobody would remember your cowardice of hiding during the peaceful demonstrations in Ottawa.
By the way, you have a vaccine passport, so Ukrainians definitely welcome such a healthy soldier and leader! Don’t worry Canada, there are millions of wiser Canadians who can lead this country.

[zarayousouf]

Tim, When we get a new president in there and we will he’s gonna open up the pipelines and everything else that we should be doing then you tell Germany when it happens in France when they start crying and coming to us for help I would deny them their arrogance is going to get them in trouble and everybody always comes to the USA well tell him no clean up your own Big oil will not give up their fat profits Greed is the problem and oddly enough is the same reason Putin is invading Ukraine. Greed and power !

[theanil]

A special thanks to all the 81 million Americans who voted for this catastrophic disaster!

[axmdvblvk]

Hypocrite America telling Ukraine to fight while himself buying oil from Russia and helping them making more weapons

[Artistiqstudio]

We have reserves for 200 years . What the Hell is wrong with this picture!!!!

[mehmetaliok]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, The best way to demonstrate your courage is to emergently leading an army of volunteers and fighting on streets of Kyiv, which Ukrainians want badly now. You would be the greatest hero in the universe like Volodymyr Zelenskyy and nobody would remember your cowardice of hiding during the peaceful demonstrations in Ottawa. By the way, you have a vaccine passport, so Ukrainians definitely welcome such a healthy soldier and leader! Don’t worry Canada, there are millions of wiser Canadians who can lead this country.