| | Joe Biden, who on the day he seized power limited America's productive oil capacity, reversing America's role as the largest exporter of oil to a net importer again, announced America was at war and wrote to American oil companies on June 15, 2022 demanding they increase production: "At a time of war, refinery profit margins well above normal being passed directly onto American families are not acceptable”. | | Joe Biden, who on the day he seized power limited America's productive oil capacity, reversing America's role as the largest exporter of oil to a net importer again, announced America was at war and wrote to American oil companies on June 15, 2022 demanding they increase production: "At a time of war, refinery profit margins well above normal being passed directly onto American families are not acceptable”. |
| − | After the EU passed an anti-[[free market]], Sovie-style price cap on Russian [[crude oil]] in early December 2022, ''[[The Economist]]'' magazine commented, "“The European Union oil price cap may result in violent spikes...Everything depends on how Moscow responds...The Kremlin could cut its oil exports, relying on a smaller group of non-Western tankers and insurers, and sending global prices spiraling”. [[BP]], formerly known as British Petroleum before going global, owns a 19.75% share of the Russian energy giant [[Rosneft]]. In December Rosneft paid BP a £580 billion pound sterling dividend payment (USD $712 billion). Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky called the money paif to the NATO ally which was supplying lethal weapons to the Zelensky regime, "blood money."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/02/bp-shares-in-kremlin-oil-firm-are-blood-money-says-zelenskiy-adviser</ref> | + | After the EU passed an anti-[[free market]], Sovie-style price cap of $60 per barrel on Russian [[crude oil]] in early December 2022, ''[[The Economist]]'' magazine commented, "“The European Union oil price cap may result in violent spikes...Everything depends on how Moscow responds...The Kremlin could cut its oil exports, relying on a smaller group of non-Western tankers and insurers, and sending global prices spiraling”. [[BP]], formerly known as British Petroleum before going global, owns a 19.75% share of the Russian energy giant [[Rosneft]]. In December Rosneft paid BP a £580 billion pound sterling dividend payment (USD $712 billion). Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky called the money paif to the NATO ally which was supplying lethal weapons to the Zelensky regime, "blood money."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/02/bp-shares-in-kremlin-oil-firm-are-blood-money-says-zelenskiy-adviser</ref> |