As we enter the “energy war” phase of the global crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Americans will be asked to make greater sacrifices and the government will be required to do more to maintain the political will needed to defeat Vladimir Putin and support Volodymyr Zelenskyy. President Joe Biden took important steps toward that goal Tuesday when he announced the United States would, like a number of allies, stop buying Russian energy products . He described why he was taking the step and the measures his administration would take to reduce the harm done to American consumers. He also resonantly noted that when people are asked to pay more at the pump, they should see it as dealing with “ Putin’s price hike .” Russia is attacking freedom The president’s arguments were well-framed and crisply made. But as the war likely drags on, it also will be necessary that Biden, his Cabinet and, if they are fair-minded and have the nation’s interests at heart, his opponents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.S. is working to punish Vladimir Putin with a ban on Russian oil. Americans need to be aware of the cost of defending freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,39,45,44,42],"class_list":["post-220918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-economy","tag-energy-industry","tag-gas-price","tag-industry","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}