Biden administration officials pressured some Democratic senators not to support bipartisan legislation by Sens. Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski that would ban oil and gas imports from Russia, Senate Democratic aides told Axios.
A demonstrator in Germany called for a Russian oil and gas boycott on Thursday. Photo: Henning Kaiser/picture alliance via Getty Images
It also could force other countries to follow suit — sending oil prices soaring around the globe. Russia, the world’s third-largest oil producer, sends most of its petroleum products to Europe and Asia.It's mostly imported in Hawaii and the coasts, where refiners don’t have access to the pipelines connecting the big domestic oil fields in places like the southwest's Permian Basin.
That appears to be a shift from the White House's initial dismissal of the congressional effort to effectively impose an embargo on Russian oil for U.S. refiners. Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday about a ban, "I’m all for that — ban it."
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