sk47
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Hello; There you go again missing main points. There surely are other factors involved in higher fuel prices. There are of course the embargos of Russian oil restricting supply to some degree. However, the fuel prices in the USA were on the rise for over a year before the Russian oil embargoes started.What is amusing is that some of you still think oil prices are down to US politics.
Oil prices are high globally, where your politics are irrelevant.
The USA was, before the pandemic debacle, producing supplies enough for export. That extra amount no longer makes it to the world market and in addition makes the USA need to import some amount.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine things indeed got worse in terms of world supply and made supply issues worse. It may be most folks think refusing to buy Russian oil is the thing to do in terms of showing support for the Ukrainians. That refusal to use Russian oil is in fact a policy decision. Happens to have been done by several countries in addition to the USA, but still policy decisions which directly have affected supply.
Whether it was policies internal to the USA or several countries making policy decisions at least some of the current rise in prices are due directly to such policy decisions.
Here in the USA fuel prices rose steadily beginning in January 2021. Well before Russia's thing. Just before the pandemic edicts and lockdowns started the world economy was humming along with plenty of demand and much lower fuel prices than currently.
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