Ukraine war latest: Global commodity prices soar to 14-year record
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 3, 2022
The biggest US purchasers of Russian oil include ExxonMobil © Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images
Democrats in Congress are urging US oil refineries to stop importing oil from Russia in an effort to ratchet up the pressure on the Kremlin a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Bobby Rush, the Democratic chair of the House Energy Subcommittee, and Jerry McNerney, another Democrat on the subcommittee, have written to the refiners’ industry group calling on its members to stop purchasing Russian crude oil and partly refined products.
In the letter to the American Fuel and . . .