Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare reliance on Vladimir Putin’s oil and gas exports but the damage does not stop there. In the invaded country itself, the “breadbasket of Europe,” farming operations have virtually shut down which could drive global food shortages.
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi has drawn ridicule for saying that people can either choose peace in Ukraine or their air conditioners.
As the EU considers new sanctions against Russia, the Hungarian government has stated that it will pay for Russian gas supplies in rubles.
The European Union is poised to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine.
The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union were set Wednesday to impose new punishing sanctions targeting Russia.
European politicians floated an embargo on Russian gas after accusing Moscow of being behind an alleged massacre of civilians.
A plurality of Americans blame rising gas prices on President Biden’s economic policies, despite his attempts to deflect and blame others, a Quinnipiac University survey released this week found.
Over one-third of Americans say they have had to cut groceries in order to afford gas as prices skyrocket in the second year of Biden’s presidency, a Quinnipiac University survey released this week found.
Nigeria will consider conducting trade with Russia in national currencies, i.e., in Russian rubles, “if necessary,” Nigerian Ambassador to Moscow Abdullahi Shehu told Russia’s state-owned Sputnik news agency on Thursday.
Despite facing a chronic energy crisis, Germany has continued its Green crusade of shutting down hydrocarbon-fueled power plants.
Joe Biden shuts down offshore oil and gas production while tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to provide fossil fuels to U.S. consumers.
Why is oil in short supply? Activists have pushed banks and investors to back away from financing oil and natural gas extraction.
The president urged oil companies to start producing more oil, threatening to punish them if they do not respond.
Ukraine’s leading English-language state media outlet has traduced Germany’s political class, including Angela Merkel and the sitting Chancellor and President, as bearing “collective responsibility” for having “effectively encouraged” Russian aggression.
President Joe Biden and radical Green New Deal leftists “want Americans to suffer at the gas pumps,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
Activists are pressuring banks to stop investing in fossil fuels in the name of stopping “climate change” as gas and oil prices soar.
Germany’s addiction to Russian gas has come to backfire on the European state, with one minister saying that the country is now suffering ‘in the most brutal way’ thanks to the policymaking of previous administrations.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck has declared an early warning level over Russian gas supplies that has seen speculation of coming rationing.
Most Americans believe President Joe Biden should step down if gas prices continue to skyrocket, hitting $8 per gallon, a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found.
The Spanish government has announced it will be aiming to reduce petrol prices by 20 cents per litre in an effort to combat rising energy prices affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blasted President Biden for being out of touch on Sunday following reports of the president drafting an executive order to invoke the Defense Production Act to help produce material for electric car batteries.
PONTE VEDRA, Florida — The American people are not buying President Biden’s excuses as he blames skyrocketing gas prices on Russian President Vladimir Putin and oil and gas companies, Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) told Breitbart News during an exclusive interview at the 2022 U.S. House Republican Issues Conference.
About seven in ten Americans say President Biden’s economy “is in bad shape,” a Friday Associated Press-NORC poll revealed.
Even if the U.S. can ship more gas to Europe, the continent may struggle to receive it. Import terminals are located in coastal areas, where there are fewer pipeline connections for distributing it. And if all Europe’s facilities were operating at capacity, the amount of gas would likely be only about two-thirds of what Russia delivers through pipelines.
BRUSSELS (AP) – President Vladimir Putin’s threat to have “unfriendly” countries pay for Russian natural gas exports only in rubles from now on got the not-so-friendly treatment from European Union nations Thursday.
Biden’s energy policies and the Russian invasion of Ukraine bring to light how the United States could turn to 87,000 dams for hydropower.
A globalist climate change organization in the U.K. published an analyis that calls for rich countries to ditch fossil fuels by 2034.
California is reporting some of the highest gas prices in the nation, nearing $6.00 a gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA’s data.
A plurality blames the Biden administration for high gas prices, an Emerson Polling survey released this week found.
In an apparent move of desperation, Germany has agreed to a gas deal with Islamist Qatar to try and wean itself off Russian energy.
A majority of Americans say the skyrocketing gas prices in President Joe Biden’s America have caused financial hardship, a Monmouth University Poll released this week found.
DOI announced it will resume oil and gas leasing on federal land after a court ruled it can consider climate change as part of the process.
On Day One of his presidency, Joe Biden shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline and banned drilling on federal land as part of his plan to save the planet from so-called climate change. But one of the “alternative energy” sources he is promoting is on the skids, and solar power advocates say they need a government bailout.
California is reporting the highest gas price average in the nation, sitting at well over $5.00 a gallon, according to AAA’s data.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) – High energy costs are stoking unrest in parts of Europe, with Spain deploying more than 23,000 police officers amid a truckers’ strike Friday and farmers in France and Greece snarling traffic with their protests.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called for “everyone to step up, whether it’s gas station owners, whether it’s oil companies” to increase energy supply and said there is “concern about whether there is profiteering
A majority of Americans say President Joe Biden should prioritize increasing American energy production in the wake of continually rising gas prices, which Biden has blamed on both Russia and gas and oil companies.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that he would be surprised if oil companies weren’t engaging in profiteering on gas prices and Congress needs to “keep an eye on that and try to make
President Joe Biden has had 110 days with an approval index — the number of those who strongly approve minus those who strongly disapprove of his job performance — at or under -24, far surpassing former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, according to Rasmussen Reports.
Germany is considering reopening some of its decommissioned coal power plants in the hopes of getting a handle on its ongoing energy crisis.
