What to know about the West's new efforts to slash Russia's oil revenue

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Most of the world's maritime services for oil tankers are based in the U.K. and the European Union, so that ban would apply to virtually all tankers plying the world's waters.
44% : "The evasion tactics used by Iran and Venezuela can be easily met and borrowed by Russia to continue shipping without that compliance to the price cap," she says.
42% : First, the European Union will ban all seaborne imports of Russian oil, a move that takes effect Monday.
35% : Most energy sanctions, like those against Iran and Venezuela, target volume, not price.
35% : Michelle Wiese Bockmann, an analyst with London-based Lloyd's List, a maritime news agency, says there's already a lot of illicit oil trade, especially moving sanctioned oil from Iran and Venezuela.

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