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President Joe Biden Announces United States to Ban Import of Russian Oil

President Joe Biden Announces United States to Ban Import of Russian Oil

President Joe Biden has made an announcement that the United States will ban imports of Russian oil.

As gas prices have been climbing across America, the President also acknowledged this might cause additional hardship in the protest of Russian Forces invading Ukraine.

Click inside to see what the President said in his statement…

“This is a step that we are taking to inflict further pain on Putin, but there will be costs as well here in the United States,” Biden said. “I said I will level with the American people from the beginning. When I first spoke to this, I said defending freedom is going to cost. It is going to cost us as well in the United States…Republicans and Democrats alike have been clear that we must do this.”

He added, “many of our European allies and partners may not be in a position to join us. The United States produces far more oil domestically than all of the European countries combined.”

“Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pumped more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor’s first year,” he added. “We’re approaching record levels of oil and gas production in the United States and we’re on track to set a record for oil production next year.”

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