Opinion | Putin Is Onto Us

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : If Biden wants America to be the arsenal of democracy to protect us and our democratic allies -- and not leave us begging Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela or Iran to produce more oil and gas -- we need a robust energy arsenal as much as a military one.
48% : We want to tell the petrodictators in Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to take a hike.
47% :The U.S. Treasury and European Union believe that without that insurance, the number of customers for Russian oil will shrink dramatically, so they are telling the Russians that they can get the insurance for their oil tankers from the few Western insurance companies that dominate the industry only if they lower the price of their crude oil exports to a level set by the Europeans and the United States.
38% : Next, Putin is watching the European Union gear up for a ban on seaborne imports of crude oil from Russia, starting Dec. 5.
32% : My sources in the oil industry tell me they seriously doubt this Western price fixing will work.

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