拜登政府准备禁止进口俄罗斯石油了。

Let’s NOT succumb to the high oil/gasoline prices!

If the USA wants to be less dependent on foreign oil, let’s get back to the preferable (most workers) work from home model. Corporate America can help facilitate this by bringing back ZOOM and work from home. Anything that helps, helps. I know it won’t stop the war, but it can ease the costs of inflation on other consumer staples. Thoughts????

Oil prices are so manipulated. Demand makes an enormous difference. For example, when Covid was raging and most everyone stayed home for a period of time... gas was $1.83 per gallon. I know that's not practical right now, but if we do small things, it will help. For example, when you drive somewhere and reach the parking lot, turn your engine off instead of idling for 1/2 hour while scrolling through your phone. It's usually SUV drivers doing this. And also, maybe try to drive less.

Please someone explain:

Isnt Russian oil already technically sanctioned as the funds made by their sales cannot be repatriated back to Russia, but frozen in some American bank, just like what is currently happening to Iran. I thought that was the point of sanctioning the Russian central bank and removing them from SWIFT. Or did that only apply to their foreign researves and exceptions made for Russian oil payments.

Also does sanctioning Russian oil mean that all of its exports around the world will be sanctioned or only to EU/America. For example will China be sanctioned for continuing to import Russian oil.

Do not worry everyone. I am old enough to remember the 70's energy crisis. Then in 2008 under GW Bush we also had very high gas prices, similar to today. These things pass as high prices reduces demand and people conserve, plus new supplies (very profitable) are brought online and gradually fill the gap. The whole world can really do without anything Russia has or makes, it just takes time to do it.

So for now, everyone dedicate yourselves to using less energy, and only use it when needed. I just turned off the AC. You might turn down the heater or do all your errands in one car trip, or car-pool like people did after the previous energy crisis. Take public transport, bicycle and walk more. And do not drive around aimlessly, leave the heat or AC on when you are not there, heat or cool the whole house if you are only using 1-2 rooms, etc.

Other things you can do are don't waste food. Re-use plastics. Insulate your home. Buy more energy efficient cars and appliances. Bottomline, if we bring our energy consumption down by 20%, which is very doable, then we remove the supply shortage caused by Russia and we are back to "normal" with a re-set.

Russia's loss will also be others' gain. Maybe after10-20 years of terrible sanctions, Iran and Venezuela want to rejoin the world's economy again. All they have to do it denounce Putin, cut ties with him and improve their governments in terms of democracy and corruption. Then they can cease to be isolated as pariah states. Lesser of two evils deals like this are all over the place, but the bottoimline is Putin must be defeated and destroyed, and so if all out war with NATO is off the table (unless Putin attacks first) then this is the best we can do, and Putin doesn't know it yet but he has already lost. Just a question of how many he will murder and how much damage he will cause before he is finally brought down.